Earth-Shaking Monday Event: Commemoration of 1906 SF Earthquake

One of the Bay Area’s most literally earth-shaking events — or at least the commemoration thereof — is happening Monday: The gathering marking the 116th anniversary of San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake and fire.

For decades, city officials — this year, Mayor London Breed, former mayor Willie Brown and Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, among others — and hundreds of other hardy souls have met at an ornate water fountain downtown known as Lotta’s Fountain in the very early hours of April 18 to mark the anniversary.