See the catastrophic aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906
San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MarylandLearn about Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), November 9–10, 1938.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1994-040-15A (CC BY-SA 3.0)Learn about the role of women in Nazi Germany.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.It's no wonder that the man called the Little Corporal has captivated the public for 200 years.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Seismic waves travel in different patterns and at different speeds through the Earth. The most damaging are the surface types—the Love waves and the Rayleigh waves.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzA scientist hoping one day to predict earthquakes by observing ants in colonies situated on geological fault lines.
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© MinuteEarth (A Britannica Publishing Partner)During a liquefaction event, such as that which could be produced by an earthquake, soil particles, in combination with the water located in the pore spaces between them, tend to behave like quicksand.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Norman Chan/Dreamstime.com; © Oleksandr Khoma/Dreamstime.comAmid predictions that Tokyo will be struck by a major earthquake by 2040, local officials investigated ways to limit the potential damage, 2009 film.
