Great Earthquake I

Some pics from the Northridge Quake 1994 and great San Francisco Quake in 1906. The former was vicious, shaking with an "up and down" type motion on 1/17 at 430AM. Sometimes quakes may shake over a minute possibly up to 3 minutes (as the great Chile quake in 1960). In San Francisco, the quake shook and also started a large inferno which consumed much of the city in its aftermath. The Chilean quake, at 9.5 on the Richter scale, was so large that it sent a 30 foot tsunami across the Pacific Ocean...eventually hitting the shores of Tokyo.