stackyFACTSThe 1906 San Francisco earthquake violently ruptured the ground, but it was the broken gas lines that truly doomed the city. Enormous firestorms raged for days, while desperate officials resorted to dynamically blowing up expensive mansions just to create firebreaks.
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