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No disastrous earthquake has visited San Francisco within the past hundred years, and the series of earthquakes which lately occurred in the southeastern corner of the State, four hundred miles -- on the edge of the great Interior Basin, and in a volcanic region -- were by no means so disastrous or severe as those which visited the Mississippi Valley in 1811, or those which are of frequent occurrence in New Zealand, Japan and many other countries. Nevertheless, the people of the Atlantic States look upon California as one of the most dangerous earthquake countries in the world. This is due to the infernal habit of exaggeration which characterizes Eastern newspaper letter- The Atlantic papers would most willingly publish any wild earthquake theory that San Francisco was in momentary danger of being swallowed up; but we have no hope that they will publish these facts. There would be no sensation in them, and nothing but sensation agrees with the feverish newspaper stomach there. San Francisco Real Estate Circular |