- First natural disaster to be photographed

- the 1906 earthquake can be remembered as the birth of modern earthquake science in the
United States. It was the first time that an earthquake was recognized and documented
- In this picture it is presented the comparison between the rupture of san andreas fault in the
1906 earthqake from san francisco (430 km) and in loma prieta in 1989 (40 km, 6.9 magnitude
on Richter scale)
- The San Andreas Fault is a transform fault which means that the plates are sliding along
the fault. The Pacific Plate is moving north-west relative to the North American Plate,
and it’s this movement that causes earthquakes.
- This is what a professor of geology name andrew lawson from UC Berkely said in the newspaper
in 1904: blablalbalbla. And in one year and 4 moths the big earthquake came and did this !!!

Although the building was very damaged by the earthquake, it did not collapse.