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* Deaths: > 3,000
* Injuries: ~225,000
* Property Damage: $ 400,000,000 in 1906
* San Andreas Rift: 270 miles


==> The ground had broken open for more than 270 miles along a great fault - the San Andreas rift. The country on the east side of the rift had moved southward relative to the country on the west side of the rift.