San Francisco Earthquake 1906

My name is Leana Delatorre and and I work for The New York Times. I'm reporting on the earthquake that happened in San Francisco in 1906. It was a major earthquake that caused a lot of mess in that area. It happened on April 18, 1906 at 5:12 am on Wednesday. It was one of the largest earthquakes, it was 7.8 magnitude. It is remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in history in the United States. The estimated number of people that died was 3,000 or more. It lasted up 45 to 60 seconds the earthquake was felt all the way to Southern Oregon to the south of Los Angeles and inland all the way to Central Nevada. This disaster caused 227,000 to 300,000 people to be homeless that's half of the population in the city. This disaster had a bad effect on many people of San Francisco.