{"product_id":"9780060894207","title":"A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe international bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Professor and the Madman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKrakatoa\u003c\/i\u003e vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of other towns were overcome by an earthquake registering 8.25 on the Richter scale, resulting from a rupture in the San Andreas fault. Lasting little more than a minute, the earthquake wrecked 490 blocks, toppled a total of 25,000 buildings, broke open gas mains, cut off electric power lines, and effectively destroyed the gold rush capital that had stood there for a half century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47095020060912,"sku":"9780060894207","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060894207_p0.jpg?v=1763621247","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060894207","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}