san-fran-34 - from our story 'The Harrowing Photographs and Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake'

Disruption of Van Ness Avenue over a filled-in ravine. Lateral movements as great as 3 feet (0.9m) and vertical movements as great as 2 feet (0.6m) occurred at this location. Photograph previously published by Zeigler (1906) with caption "Break in asphalt paving on Van Ness Avenue near Vallejo Street. View shows horse-drawn wagon and buggy traffic. City and County of San Francisco, California. 1906. (USGS)

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