. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Photos by Aithen Views of Slide near Mussel Rock 46 THE FAULT LINE catalogue of graft! These are the structures mostseverely injured. South of San Francisco the fault extends fromnear the town of Salinas, about one hundred milessouth, to where it enters the sea at Mussel Rock,just south of the county line. Between these pointsit follows almost as direct a course as if laid outwith a straightedge. North of the Golden Gateit appears at Bolinas Bay, about twenty miles f


. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Photos by Aithen Views of Slide near Mussel Rock 46 THE FAULT LINE catalogue of graft! These are the structures mostseverely injured. South of San Francisco the fault extends fromnear the town of Salinas, about one hundred milessouth, to where it enters the sea at Mussel Rock,just south of the county line. Between these pointsit follows almost as direct a course as if laid outwith a straightedge. North of the Golden Gateit appears at Bolinas Bay, about twenty miles fromMussel Rock, and directly in line with the course ofthe fault, and continues as far as Point Arena,ninety miles northward, where the line followed bythe fault runs out into the ocean, getting further andfurther away from the Coast. In length this faultgreatly exceeds that made by any other earthquakeknown to science. It is over three times as long asthat of the great Japanese earthquake of 1891. Across the rolling hills and valleys betweenSalinas and Mussel Rock it shows itself as a sharpcrack in the earth, along which


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