THE EARTHQUAKE EIFT OF Won 



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Land Slip at Sobkante. 



was jerked sixteen feel to the north; or that on the east sixteen feet to 

 the south — only a careful re-snrvey of the region can tell us which. 

 Or it may be that both sides went to the northward, but the west side 

 pulled away, distancing the other by sixteen feet. In any case, the 

 bridge was torn to splinters, and the crack went on, always the west 

 side some sixteen and a half feet to the northward, though the sticky 

 soil tends to lag hack, and not every place shows the maximum of sheer- 

 ing or horizontal displacement. Passing under a barn, the rift tore it 

 to splinters. The spreading wave displaced or destroyed most of the 



Land Slip at Sobp.ante 



