The 1906 M7.8 California earthquake occurred 117 years ago: 1906-04-18 13h12mUTC. Here is recent seismicity (1984-2022) west of San Francisco. The 1906 hypocenter was likely in the yellow box, perhaps within the deep, linear trend of recent earthquakes (yellow).

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Apr 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake: Sparse timing data (including quick reading of wall clocks by local observers!) are sufficient to estimate the hypocenter location within about 10-20km (red cloud) - the epicenter is quite near San Francisco. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/b

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