{"id":274053,"date":"2026-04-18T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274053\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:52:09","slug":"massive-earthquake-devastates-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274053\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive earthquake devastates San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SAN FRANCISCO (WCSC) \u2014 An earthquake estimated to have reached as high as 8.3 magnitude on the Richter scale devastated San Francisco on April 18, 1906.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The earthquake ruptured the northernmost 296 miles of the San Andreas Fault. More than 3,000 people are believed to have been killed by the quake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The earthquake was felt from southern Oregon to south of Los Angeles and as far inland as central Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A report from the U.S. Geological Survey found more than 28,000 buildings were destroyed by the quake and the fires that followed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCSC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (WCSC) \u2014 An earthquake estimated to have reached as high as 8.3 magnitude on the Richter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[117905,2949,6231,56788,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-274053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-america-250","tag-earthquake","tag-fault","tag-san-andreas","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}