PART TWO. 
TSOSEISMALS: DISTRIBUTION OF APPARENT INTENSITY — CONTINUED. 
AREA OF THE SANTA CRUZ QUADRANGLE OF THE JU. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
The distribution of intensity in the area of the Santa Cruz Quadrangle was studied by 
students of Stanford University, under direction of Prof. J. C. Branner. The con- 
tributors to data embodied in this part of the report are Messrs. R. V. Anderson, H. W. 
Bell, B. Bryan, R. E. Collom, R. Crandall, P. Edwards, H. P. Gage, F. Lane, R. Moran, 
R. L. Motz, A. F. Rogers, 8. Taber, A. F. Taggart, F. W. Turner, and G. A. Waring. 
Stanford University (J. C. Branner). — Referring to the group of dwellings southeast 
of the University quadrangle, there were 61 residences on the campus of Stanford Uni- 
versity at the time of the earthquake. Out of 140 chimneys on these buildings, 104 
were thrown down, or 74 per cent. The plaster was generally badly broken on the first 
floors of these buildings, and less injured tho generally more or less cracked in the second- 
floor rooms. At No. 138 Alvarado Row, first floor, several pictures 18 inches across, and 
hanging by cords 4 feet long, were swung so far that they were left with their faces to 
the wall. On the corner of Salvatierra and Aguello Streets, a frame building occupied 
by the Chi Psi Fraternity was so badly wrecked that it had to be abandoned. The 
injury done this building was due to its having stood upon posts 4 feet high and not well 
braced; the swaying of the building threw it off these supports. 
President Jordan’s residence, west of the quadrangle, had 38 brick chimneys, all of 
which were thrown down; the plaster was so badly injured that the first floor, the ceilings, 
and part of the second floor had to be replastered. This building rested upon a brick 
foundation about 4 feet high. 
The Stanford residence, a mile north of the quadrangle, was so badly wrecked that it 
has since been torn down. ‘The original building was of brick, and wooden additions 
had been built on the northwest and southeast sides of the brick portion. The additions 
stood upon wooden uprights 4 feet in length. The southeastern wooden addition was 
thrown from its supports and fell away from the older brick portion. The brick portion 
of the structure was badly shattered. In the grounds and parks about the residence 
there were many marble and bronze statues from 4.5 to 5 feet high, standing on pedestals 
from 2 to 4 feet high. These were all thrown down, except a few that were very securely 
bolted to heavy pedestals. There was no uniformity in the directions in which they fell. 
Between the Stanford residence and the museum, a large 2-story brick winery had 
the 4 gable ends thrown down. ‘The northwest gable fell into the building, the south- 
east gable fell outward, while the gables on the northeast and southwest sides fell outward. 
Mr. Charles G. Lathrop’s residence is not on the valley floor, like the other buildings in 
the immediate vicinity of the University, but stands on a hill of sandstone nearly 300 
feet above the level of the bay. Out of the 4 brick chimneys on his house 2 were thrown 
down; 2 water-tanks 53 feet high (10-foot tanks on 43-foot supports) were not injured, 
but about two-thirds of the water was thrown from them. 
Professor Durand’s house, south of the quadrangle, is on a hill 160 feet above the bay 
and stands on the upturned edges of gravel beds that underlie the Santa Clara Valley. 
Of 3 chimneys, 2 were thrown down, and the plaster was cracked on the ground floor. 
Of the University buildings proper, some were unhurt while others were completely 
wrecked. (See plate 1028.) They all stand upon the loose gravelly loam of the Santa 
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