{"product_id":"9780060572006","title":"A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906","description":"In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco, and a  string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast, were  overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by the violent  shocks of an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale. The  quake resulted from a rupture in a part of the San Andreas fault, which  lies underneath the earth's surface along the northern coast of  California. Lasting little more than a minute, it wrecked 490 blocks,  toppled a total of 25,000 buildings, broke open gas mains and cut off  electric power lines throughout the Bay area. Perhaps more significant  than the tremors and rumbling were the fires that took over the city for  three days, leaving chaos and horror in its wake. The human tragedy  included the deaths of between 450 and 700 people, with more than  250,000 left homeless. It was perhaps the worst natural disaster in the  history of the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  In A CRACK IN THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, Simon Winchester brings his  inimitable take to this story, exploring not only what happened in  Northern Califonia in 1906, but what we have learned since then about  the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake in the first  place. Winchester's achievement is to position the quake's significance  along the earth's geological timeline, while also showing the effect it  had on the rest of 20th-century American history.","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007900139760,"sku":"9780060572006","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060572006_p0.jpg?v=1763765460","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060572006","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}