The book Earthquake At Dawn is a novel about the greatest earthquake that ever happened in California. The earthquake hit San Francisco in 1806 and would have registered 8.3 on the Richter scale. The author named the book Earthquake At Dawn because she tells you the story about an earthquake in San Francisco and what it did to the city. This earthquake happened at 5:15 am before most people in the city were awake. The Historical period that …showed first 75 words of 838 total…

…showed last 75 words of 838 total…mayor of San Francisco and how bad a person he was. He and other people would do things to make money for themselves and their friends. Things that were illegal. I also learned that even though the city was destroyed and people lost everything they owned, they rebuilt the city with pride. This is the same as how people in New York City reacted when the terrorists crashed the planes into the World Trade Center.