ISOSEISMALS: DISTRIBUTION OF APPARENT INTENSITY. 277. 
of the house was left resting upon the wine tuns, and not upon its original upright sup- 
ports (fig. 56). The fence and road near the house were crost by the fault and showed an 
offset which indicated a relative movement of the southwest side toward the southeast 
(plate 648). One fence was broken apart, but the other was merely bowed, due probably 
to the resistance and drag of soil occasioned by a well-packed roadbed. The fruit-tree 
rows which crost the fault-line at approximate right angles were put out of alinement. 






















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A feature associated with the movement of soil along the fault-line is shown in the 
accompanying sketch, fig. 57. The “splintering” of the main fracture raised a long, low 
ridge across which a creek had been forced to cut its way thru a vertical distance of 1.5 
feet to get down to its original level. 
Between Wright’s and Alma the railway track was buckled. (See plate 107A.) 
(D. S. Jordan.) —At Morrell’s ranch, about 4 miles above Wright’s, a large 2-story 
house with a wing stood on the slope of a hill. The east side of the house was much 
higher above the ground than the 
west, and stood on wooden piers about 
7 feet high. The earthquake crack 
past thru this ranch, a branch of it 
going under the house. The main 
body of the house was thrown to the 
east, away from the crack, the ground 
there slumping several feet and the 
house being almost totally wrecked. 
All thru the orchard the rows of trees 
are shifted about 6 feet, those on the 
east side being farther north, and the 
east side, which is downhill, seems to 
have fallen. The crack is largely open 
and in one place is filled with water. 
This should be attributed to slumping. 
A little farther on, the crack passes 
thru a grassy hill on which there is no 
slumping. The Morrells say that this » 
hill has been raised. What appears to 
be the fact is that the east side of the 
hill overrides the other. The whole top of the hill is more or less cracked for a width of 
about 10 feet. The east side is a little higher than the west side, and it looks as tho the 
hill had been shoved together and raised, the east side overriding. About 1 mile beyond 
Morrell’s house, at the end of the ranch, there is a blacksmith shop, and the road is crost 
by the crack. Here there is a break of 3 or 4 feet like a waterfall, the east side being 
the lower; but this is part, I take it, of the general slumping of the east side of the crack 



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Fic. 57. — Displacement on auxiliary crack, Morrell ranch. 
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