Ka kammala wannan magana: A safiyar ranar 18 ga Afrilu, 1906,
wata babbar girgizar kasa da cibiyarta ke kusa da birnin San Francisco ta afkawa yankin. Kimanin asarar da sojojin Amurka suka yi a cikin ayyukan agaji sun kasance mutuwar 498 a San Francisco, mutuwar 64 a Santa Rosa, da 102 a ko kusa da San Jose, don jimlar kimanin 700. Binciken da aka yi kwanan nan ya ƙiyasta jimlar adadin mutanen da suka mutu ya wuce 3,000, tare da gine-gine sama da 28,000 da aka lalata. Nan da nan aka soma aikin sake ginawa. Amadeo Peter Giannini, mai Bankin Italiya (wanda yanzu aka sani da Bank of America), ya yi nasarar dawo da kuɗin daga ɗakunan ajiya na bankinsa kafin gobara ta barke a cikin birni kuma shi ne kawai bankin da ke da kuɗin da ake samu kuma yana da mahimmanci wajen ba da rancen kuɗi don sake ginawa. Majalisa ta amince da shirin nan da nan don tafki a cikin Hetch Hetchy Valley a cikin Yosemite National Park, wani shiri da suka ƙi 'yan shekaru da suka gabata, wanda yanzu ke ba da ruwan sha ga mutane miliyan 2.4 a yankin Bay. A shekara ta 1915, an sake gina garin sosai kuma ya tallata kansa ga duniya a lokacin baje kolin Panama Pacific a wannan shekarar, kodayake tasirin girgizar kasa ya hanzarta asarar matsayin yankin a California zuwa yankin Los Angeles.