The great San Francisco Earthquake

5:18 AM, April 18, 1906 in Sanfrancisco there was a huge Earthquake that lasted only a minute. It sounds like a very weak earthquake because it only lasted a minute but it a disaster. It ripped thousands of houses, a hundreds of buildings. It cracked up to 435 kilometers and 6.4 meters deep. It made more than quater of a million people homeless. It killed 2500 death in total, and it was not pretty. By the time it happened, it was like mordern days. There were cars, buildings, houses, telegragh lines. Also scientist believe that this earthquake was more dangerous because of all the broken glass, electric wires which could definately kill someone. After the Earthquake, the American Red Cross Army and volunteers provided tents for the homelesses. Between september 1906 and march 1907 when people were sure that the earthquake was over, the Army Corps engineers built 5610 cottages for each family who were homeless. Each cottages costed about 100 to 700 dollars to build and the families only had to pay 2 dollars a month to the government. Recently this earthquake was the biggest natural disaster in the American history.