San Francisco was a very opulent city in the 19th century due to the gold rush, the city was prosperous and booming and over 400 000 people resided in this region, but the dynamics of this change at 5:12 a.m. in April 1906.1 A powerful devastation finally struck California in April 1906. The Great San Francisco Earthquake is considered one of the most devastating devastations powers in the United States.2 On that desolate day, many lives were lost and the damage costs were very exorbitant. The implications were very profound and tumultuous. A powerful seismic shock propagates in San Francisco with a magnitude of 7.8. Some researchers say the magnitude of this earthquake could reach 8.3. 3 There were two earthquakes that day, the first was not as powerful as the second, causing unprecedented damage. This earthquake was never seen before and people were indeed stunned by its power. More profoundly, people described the first earthquake as "it threw my bed against an opposite wall," wrote Emma Burke, the wife of a local lawyer. "It was getting worse and worse, the deafening noise; the crashing of the dishes, the falling pictures, the rattling of the flat tin roof, the bookcases overturned, the piano thrown across the living room, the groans and tensions of the building itself, broken glass and falling plaster, made such a roar that no sound could be distinguished. The earthquake hit the San Andreas Fault, causing buildings such as hotels to collapse. Affected hotels included the Valencia Street Hotel The powerful earthquake wiped out...... middle of paper .......popularmechanics.com/science/environment/natural-disasters/4219864-32 (sd) . Greater San Francisco of 1906. Retrieved from the USGS Science for a Changing World website: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/index.php 3. (nd). Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fires of 1906. Website: http://mceer.buffalo.edu/1906_Earthquake/additional_information/bibliography.asp 4. (nd). Casualties and damage after the 1906 earthquake. Retrieved from the USGS Science for a Changing World website: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/casualties.php 5. Fradkin, P. (2005). The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906. Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Q_71JLwlmkC&oi=fnd&pg=PP17&dq=Great+San+Francisco+and+Earthquake&ots=Dnw2BUFtiK&sig =eu29vO6gKe3bpUxqvjBpAZaB8Q4#v =one page&q =Grand%20San%20Francisco%20and%20Earthquake&f=false