[Pontiac]

As a result, about 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed

I have read several articles that state that the city officials deliberately under reported the number of killed.

Considering the report of 80% of the city destroyed that number seems very low.

[ghost of nixon]

I have read several articles that state that the city officials deliberately under reported the number of killed.

in Simon Winchester's excellent book, A Crack at the edge of the World, he goes into a lot of detail how the deaths must have been way under-reported.