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Originally Posted by David
Our two biggest earthquakes -- Ft. Tejon in 1857 & San Francisco in 1906 -- were so long ago, too. Only one person died in the Ft. Tejon quake.
Of course, another quake of those magnitudes (7.8 to 7.9) in California nowadays -- when our population has grown astronomically -- would be a major disaster, & the loss of life would be high.
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There was an earthquake in SF circa 1988, right? How strong was it?