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1906 San Francisco Fire: Insurance Arson, Dynamite and the Panic of 1907
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At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a rupture along about 296 miles of the San Andreas Fault shook San Francisco for 42 seconds, offsetting some ground by up to 28 feet. Professor Andrew Lawson's 1908 report showed that buildings on bedrock fared far better than those on filled marshes and…