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By Abraham Hoffman

domestic to 1000's of faults, California leads the kingdom in frequency of earthquakes each year. regardless of enduring their percentage of the average failures, citizens nonetheless speculate over the inevitable monstrous one. greater than 3 thousand humans misplaced their lives throughout the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. lengthy Beach�s 1933 earthquake triggered a lack of approximately $50 million in damages. And the Northridge earthquake injured hundreds of thousands and left a $550 million monetary hit. Historian Abraham Hoffman explores the non-public bills and aftermath of California�s so much harmful tremors.

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