3,000-6,000: Estimated death toll from the Great San Francisco Earthquake on this day 100 years ago
500: Number of city blocks destroyed
3: Number of days fires raged throughout the city
8.25: Richter scale rating of the quake
1: Number of minutes the quake lasted
$8.2 billion: Amount of property damage in today’s dollars
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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