The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-12
SEISMIC CENTER
AT BOLINAS BAY
Scientist Finds Reason to Believe Earthquake
Which DIsmantled San Francisco Has Great.
est Activity in Marin County.

/ Professor E. Knowlton has just re-
turned from thirty-mile walk to Bo-
llnas Bay, where, he says, there is evil
dence tazat the recent earthquake had
| its center. Few if any of the houses
in that vicinity escapec damage but
no fatalities occurred. There is now
an island in Bolinas Bay where were
| formerly muddy shoals and on either
side of the island the water is ten feet
deep, Professor KnowIton tells an in
teresting story of his trip ard observa-
tions, of which the following is an alb
stract:
Along the main street of the bay
side. oceaH-shore hamlet of Bolinas,
Marin County, a dozen. miles northwest
of the Golden Gate, stand most of the
houses not far from half a hundred in
number, and all frame. Of these about
two-thirds were heaved. slid. tipped and
shattered into uninha bita BILE condition.
No fatality occurred.
LAS in San Francisco most of the
chimneys came down. But the shock
was much more severe in Bolinas than
i'll San Francisco where a shock of
e""al violence would have FRUSTRATED
half the buildings before the fire began. l
Along the bay shore were seven
buildings. Six of these won't OYER or
down. In the Flagstaff Inn the tipping
of the house has thrown it so far east
into the bay that one may sit along
the upper edge of the parlor floor and
fish in four feet of water along the op-
posite edge of the same room.
f'Thp villa church y7itchP0 for
ward and downward, falling three feet,
pews torn loose and pitched about, with 4
walls and ceilings cracked and shat
tered
THE large new two-story building
row containing the postoffice. so by 80
feet, was swung five feet off its CON-
crete foundation at the north end.
Back OF the Steele place, near the
north end of the bay, the hillside start
I'd eastward toward the bay, hulged
Upward and cracked into several fis-
ares from thirty to a hundred feet long
~ from five to eighteen inches wide.
From this point nearly northerly ex- g
ends sort of windrow Of earth fis-
lures and tree breakings for ten t
niles, nearly or quite to Olenla. a
GREAT BLUFFS CRUMBLE. J.
THE great ocean bluffs along the o
outh and west of the entrance to Bo- On
mas harbor. some 165 feet high, crum-
led and fell crashing down upon the s.
cean beach and reducing the slope to is
alf its former angle. Also the two n
tufts along the stage road from the s.
cad of the hay to the town broke and fl
ELL from forty to sixty feet, completely b
locking the stage road and driving the
rage out along. the upper bay beach I
In the hay opposite the hin slide on
ne Steele. place the bottom has risen a
ito a long island, near which the bot
1m of the bay has sunk SO that the
ater is now ten feet dep where muddy
1oa!s formerly extended.
Along this northerly line Of greatest
sciIlation north of the bay, on the h,
eisler place. the barn moved fully -.
yelve feet north from the end Of :. =.
nee which had formerly joined it. On '"
le same place slide came down the
llside. opening a spring which fills a II
ur-inch pine with it's flow.
"On the Randall ranch the fright
ed cattle rushed madly against and
-er the broken fences, lowing in fear, c.
altered in terror and trembingly as
mbIed only after several hours. III
''Old settlers. cool, reliable men, tell tn
2 writer that, on the Shafter place,
in its corral. one crack opened 50
de and deep that IT swallowed COW
r of sight. But he didn't see either
ack or cow. and the reader may use be
: own discretion about swallowing
e story.
1T is sure that some old springs SEX