On April 18th, 1906, a(n)(1) __________ measuring eight on the Richter Scale hit the city of San Francisco, causing more than $400 million worth of damage
earthquake
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Who now know that San Francisco lies on the San Andreas Fault, which runs through the San Francisco Peninsula into the Santa Cruz (2) __________
mountain range
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The San Andreas Fault is a fracture in the Earth's (3) __________
crust
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and on April 18th, the (4) __________
plates
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on either side of the fault (5) __________ by six meters an then crashed back together.
drifted apart
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It was because these plates (6) __________ that the events of that day in 1906 happened
