Lite information om San Francisco 
 
San Francisco in northern California is the chiefport of 
the United States. 
A mile wide channel, called Golden Gate, leads from the sea 
into San Francisco bay. 
The Golden Gate bridge is one of San Franciscos many 
bridges and it is a very famous suspension bridge over the 
Golden Gate. It is 2 725 metres long and is 67 metres above 
the waterline. The bridge hangs down from cables. 
 
There are several fine parks in San Francisco and one of 
them, the Golden Gate Park, goes from the middle of the 
city to the Pacific coast. 
 
 There are a lot of chinese people who came to San 
Francisco to work and live a peaceful life. They have built 
a town of their own in the heart of the city and it is 
called, Chinatown. 
It is a very famous part of San Francisco, with streets 
full of chinese restaurants and shops. 
 
A fort and a missionary centre were established on the 
peninsula by the spaniards in the 18th century. The 
settlement was then called Yerba Buena. It was claimed by 
the United States in 1848 and its name was changed to San 
Francisco. 
 
San Francisco is very subjected to all earthquakes who are 
ravage in this side of earth. In 1906 San Francisco had a 
big earthquake and in the first day, 514 city blocks had 
gone, 28 188 buildings, including the homes of 250 000. 
Libraries, theaters, restaurants, courts, jails, the 
financial district, South of market, the fabulous Palace - 
all gone. About 2 500 had died.  
Now it was a city of refugees. More than 100 000 had fled, 
and 250 000 remained, encamped in parks and fields. 
In three years after the earthquake, 20 000 buildings went 
up, all bigger and stronger than the 28 000 that had 
burned. When the Richter scale was devised later, experts 
rated the quake at a tremendously potent 8.3. 
 
San Francisco October 17, 1989 there was a new big 
earthquake. In 15 interminable seconds, an estimated 100 
people had been killed and 3 000 injured, making the quake 
the third most lethal in U.S history. It was measured at 
6.9 on the Richter scale. 
 
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