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was wracked so as to lean to the southwest. A church moved 3 feet to the southwest, 
that direction being downhill. Probably half the houses in the town were not shifted 
from their foundations. Of two bridges over Olema Creek, one was shaken to pieces. A 
lady in the hotel was thrown from her bed by the shock. 
Point Reyes Station. —'The village at the railroad station of Point Reyes is about 0.5 
mile northeast of the fault-trace, and stands on a low bench of apparently firm ground. 
It is probably just outside the Rift belt. The schoolhouse, a 2-story building standing 
on a brick foundation wall, was shifted 2.5 feet to the south. A stone building used as a 
store was thrown down, the walls falling toward the southeast. The hotel barn was 
shifted 20 inches toward the south and a few other buildings were shifted, the distances, 
so far as observed, being less. Brick chimneys were generally thrown down. A large 
shed was wrecked. In all buildings furniture was shifted, objects on shelves were thrown 
down, dishes were broken, etc. An engine and three cars standing on the track were over- 
turned toward the southwest. A long wood-pile was thrown down toward the southwest. 
Inverness. — Inverness is a village of summer residences on and near the southwest 
shore of Tomales Bay. The upland of the peninsula there closely approaches the 
bay. The village occupies two narrow valleys normal to the shore, and a mesa between 
them. Its site is within the Rift, and both valleys and mesa were traversed by many 
cracks, of which some had the character of branch faults. All the houses were of wood. 
About half of them were shifted on their foundations. To a certain extent the direction 
of shifting was determined by the slopes of the ground, the houses moving downhill; — 
but where that factor did not control, the movement was toward the west or southwest. 
In one instance I noted a southwestward movement of several feet uphill. A few 
houses in the southern or “first valley”? near the beach were demolished, or so badly in- 
jured as to be torn down. Several houses on the mesa were so badly injured as to require 
practical reconstruction. As the most serious injury was to houses thrown from their 
foundations, it is probable that the jar of fallg was an important factor. It is related 
that a number of persons were thrown violently from their beds, but there were no serious 
personal injuries. Of a series of bath-houses standing on the beach, some remained 
unmoved; others were tilted because of the yielding of their slender supports; and one 
was turned over on its side without the breaking of the pins on which it stood. It fell 
to the northwest. A water-pipe following an east-west (or northeast-southwest) road 
on the mesa, and buried about 1 foot, was buckled at two points so as to be lifted above 
the ground. I saw no earth-cracks near these points. (See plate 714.) 
The phenomena connected with five water-tanks seem worthy of special mention, be- 
cause the simplicity and symmetry of the structures were such that the directions of dis- 
placement must represent closely directions of earth movement. A large tank containing 
water for the village supply stood on the mesa about 0.5 mile from the shore of the bay, 
its foundation rising a little above the ground. It was thrown in a direction almost due 
west and completely demolished, the planks and staves constituting its sides and bottom 
being strewn over a space of 50 feet. (Plate 72a.) The other four tanks were situated 
along the base of the hill between Inverness and the head of the bay, and held water for 
sprinkling the road. Each one stood on a square pedestal of braced timbers about 10 feet 
high. The tank nearest Inverness fell to the west, its pedestal yielding and _ being 
crusht. (Plate 728.) The next fell to the southwest, and tank and pedestal were both 
crusht. The third was shifted 4.5 feet westward on its pedestal, both tank and pedestal 
remaining uninjured. The pedestal of the fourth stood unchanged, and the tank was 
thrown from it toward the west-northwest, being overturned as it fell. (Plate 71s.) 
Inverness to Point Reyes Light-house.—F¥or the first 2 miles of travel, covering a right- 
line distance of about 1.5 miles, road-cracks were numerous and often large. There were 
also numerous small falls of earth from the road cliffs. Beyond that point there was a 
rapid falling off of such evidence, and tho road-cracks were frequently seen they were all 
