A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906

Simon Winchester vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, and fashions an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force. Winchester applies his inimitable storytelling abilities as well as his understanding of geology to explore the event, what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake, and its significance along the earth's geological timeline, as well as its effects on California and American history.