Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

Title: Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 Author: Simon Winchester ISBN: 9780060572006 Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: 2006 Binding: Paperback Language: English Publisher Description: The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force. In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast were overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by the violent shocks of an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale. The quake resulted from a rupture in a part