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1868 earthquake Yesterday morning San Francisco was visited by the most severe earthquake the city ever experienced.

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/1868eq.html

1868 earthquake Damage in the east bay and centerville

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist4/68oakl.html

California Department of Insurance California earthquake information

http://www.consrv.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/earthquakes/

California Reader: Earthquakes Stories about earthquakes.

http://www.notfrisco.com/calmem/earthquake/sidebar.html

Hayward Earthquake--Great Quake of 1868 California experienced many quakes before the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. The 1868 quake was a major earthquake on the Hayward Fault that changed the history of Alameda County, California. This article was researched and written by Tim Swenson.

http://www.museumoflocalhistory.org/pages/Hayward1868.pdf

Hayward Fault Hayward fault history.

http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/HaywardCreep.html

Hayward fault tour A website showing the surface expressions of the Hayward Fault.

http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/seismo/hayward/hayward.overview.html

Learn more about the 1868 Earthquake Great series of pages on the 1868 earthquake with links to photo archives.

http://seismo.berkeley.edu/faq/1868_0.html

Paleoseismology, Hayward Fault, California A large, widely damaging earthquake will occur on the Hayward fault in the future. That much we know. What we don't know is when.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/geology/paleoseis/

Predictive Intensity Map for 1868 Hayward Fault This is the intensity distribution we would expect for a repeat of the 1868 earthquake which was a M=7.0 event on the Hayward fault.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/strongmotion/intensity/1868.html