America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Simon Winchester
In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was overcome by the violent shocks of an enormous earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale. The tremors and rumbling, affecting a...
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000...
