The Days of a Man [1906 



NOTE. EARTH MOVEMENT IN CALIFORNIA 



A recent report by Professor Andrew C. Lawson of the 

 University of California, chairman of the Seismological Com- 

 mission, shows that Mount Tamalpais and the coast north of 

 Monterey Bay are slowly creeping to the northward at a rate 

 not far from 18 inches per year. The "San Andreas Fault" 

 being a very ancient one, at intervals of thirty or forty years 

 the strain grows tense, following which there is a sharp "snap- 

 ping back" felt as an earthquake. Farther south the creep 

 is less; and it is also said that Monterey Bay is 10 feet wider 

 now than when first measured. 



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