State, County History Rife with Near Misses
The Sun (San Bernardino, CA) › August 14, 2005
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It wouldn't be adequate to say California has dodged the bullet since the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. It's more like we've been dodging nukes.
An estimated 3,000 people were killed 99 years ago when 290 miles of the San Andreas fault tore loose at 5:12 a.m. April 18. Many of those died in the raging fire that leveled much of the city following the predawn temblor.See the full content of this document
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State, County History Rife with Near Misses
In the nearly 100 years since, only the 1933 Long Beach earthquake killed more than 100 people in one shot, when about 120 people died. A total of 350 people have been killed in California earthquakes ...
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