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| {{Merge|1906 San Francisco earthquake|A more specific name for this article should be used. See [[Talk:1906 San Francisco earthquake]]}}
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| On [[18 April]] [[1906]], [[San Francisco]] was ravaged by an '''[[earthquake]]''' and consumed by [[fire]]. [[Azathoth]] and her [[rakshassi]] army, having been diverted here by the [[Seventh Doctor]], were consumed in the fire. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') [[Caleera|The Sonomancer]] attempted to destroy the [[Earth]] with this earthquake, amplifying it with [[the Gift (The Gift)|the Gift]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]'') The [[vampire]] known as [[Weird Harold]] was found buried alive after the earthquake. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'')
| | The '''1906 San Francisco earthquake''' struck [[San Francisco|the city]] on [[18 April]], [[1906]]. [[Caleera]] hoped to exacerbate it with her gift to destroy [[Earth]], but the [[Eighth Doctor]] stopped her by transferring it into [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. The earthquake caused massive destruction and a [[fire]] on [[Telegraph Hill]]. |
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| While wondering why the residents of [[Pompeii]] didn't move away after the [[62]] earthquake, the [[Tenth Doctor]] answered his own question by saying, "then again, San Francisco". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| The "Earth-Skaro Timescale" of ''[[Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1976]]'', while claiming that any corresponding events may be purely coincidental, acknowledges that in [[Skaro-year]] 10,823 ([[1906]]), a [[Dalek]] task force landed on Earth to examine the core of the [[planet]], causing much disturbance to the surface.
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| | [[Helen Sinclair]] once watched a [[film]] about the earthquake starring [[Clark Gable]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]'') |
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| [[Category:20th century Earth history]]
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