1. 42 seconds -- duration of main shock
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/San_Francisco_Fire_Sacramento_Street_1906-04-18.jpg)
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2. 375,000 square miles -- area affected by quake
![](http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1135/download/CalNeva_big.jpg)
Map courtesy pubs.usgs.gov.
3. 290 miles -- section of San Andreas Fault ruptured
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/San_Andreas_Fault_Aerial_View.gif)
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4. 225,000 - 400,000 -- number of homeless; 3000 -- number of deaths
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5. 28,000 -- number of buildings destroyed; 500 -- number of blocks on fire
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6. $400 million -- property damage ($8 billion in today's dollars)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Sfearthquake2.jpg)
7. 7.8 -- quake measurement on Richter scale
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8. $9 million -- relief money contributed by individuals, cities, states & federal government
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9. 24 -- number of refugee camps operated by Army
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Row_of_shacks.jpg)
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10. 2700 -- temperature in Fahrenheit of fires that lasted for 3 days & nights
![](http://www.almanac.com/sites/new.almanac.com/files/san%20fran%20on%20fire.jpg)
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Source: mceer.buffalo.edu.
Note: For more information about the San Francisco Earthquake, visit my blog "The San Francisco Earthquake" dated April 18, 2012.
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