Today, it is part one of the Great San Francisco disasters of 1906. We talk about the history of San Francisco, how California became a state, immigration and birthright with the United States v Wong Kim Ark, and finally, the 42 seconds of terror as a 7.9 magnitude earthquake jolted the city awake at 5:12 am on April 18, 1906.

That was bad, but the fires started almost immediately - we'll cover those next week! 

An Oral History of "We Built This City," the Worst Song of All Time | GQ

Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts

Haunted by Houses: On the California Victorian in Fiction | Los Angeles Review of Books

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark/

The Longest Minute - 

https://www.amazon.com/Longest-Minute-Great-Francisco-Earthquake-ebook/dp/B09Y465G8X

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