Show C california alifornia earthquakes lengthen building lots even an earthquake does some good says popular mechanics magazine A man living in the area affected by the california earthquake measured his building lot eastward and found to his pleasant surprise that it was 11 1 S J feet longer than before it was shaken one principal street in lost angeles had its width between curbs widened six to eight inches while II 11 inch cracks were opened in side streets these geological changes occurred in a sandy spit about a mile and a half long and tron from to feet wide it Is estimated that the spit was widened four feet by the temblor in a number of places for tour four extra feet of at pipe were needed to repair the water system in some cross streets in spite of the stretching little damage was done to houses in this area |