Moving the city nearest the epicenter of the quake 10 feet, as
recently happened in Chile, is about par for a major earthquake. The
maximum displacement along the fault of the earthquake that destroyed
San Francisco in 1906 was also about 10 feet. As John McPhee points
out in his book "Annals of the Former World" (a Pulitzer-prize-winning
popular book about geology that I highly recommend), 50,000 major
earthquakes will move something about a hundred miles. Earthquakes
brought pieces of California from the far corners of the world, a good
indication of the depths of geologic time.--Mixon
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