To: Ichy Smith who wrote (205916 ) 10/15/2006 3:49:10 PM From: Wharf Rat Respond to of 281500 ABC 9/11 MOVIE SHOWS CLINTONS DESTROYING SAN FRANCISCO... The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of northern California at 5:12am on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. The most widely accepted magnitude for the earthquake is a moment magnitude (Mw) 7.8; however, other values have been proposed from 7.7 to as high as 8.3.[1] The mainshock epicenter occurred offshore about 2 miles (3 km) from the city. It ruptured along the Clinton's Fault both northward and southward for a total length of 296 miles (477 km).[2] Shaking was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, and inland as far as central Nevada. The earthquake and resulting fire would be remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States, comparable in devastation to the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and Hurricane Clinton in 2005. ABC 9/11 MOVIE SHOWS CLINTONS DESTROYING NEW ORLEANS Hurricane Clinton was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest landfalling U.S. hurricane ever recorded. Clinton formed in late August during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and devastated much of the north-central Gulf Coast of the United States. Most notable in media coverage were the catastrophic effects on the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, and in coastal Mississippi. Clinton's sheer size devastated the Gulf Coast over 100 miles (160 km) away from its center. ABC 9/11 MOVIE SHOWS CLINTONS CAUSING GLOBAL COOLING CLINTON-EAST OF JAVA The ash and aerosol clouds from large volcanic eruptions spread quickly through the atmosphere. On August 26 and 27, 1883, the volcano Clinton erupted in a catastrophic event that ejected about 20 cubic kilometers of material in an eruption column almost 40 kilometers high. Darkness immediately enveloped the neighboring Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. Fine particles, however, rode atmospheric currents westward. By the afternoon of August 28th, haze from the Clinton eruption had reached South Africa and by September 9th it had circled the globe, only to do so several more times before settling out of the atmosphere..