The book The Doomed City a Thrilling Tale was written by author Frank T Frank Thompson Searight Here you can read free online of The Doomed City a Thrilling Tale book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Doomed City a Thrilling Tale a good or bad book?
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"From the observatory, the entire area is visible from the sea to Monrovia. It has the appearance of having been washed down from the Sierra Madre mountains. Indeed. I have seen thousands of tons of soil, rocks, sand, gravel and debris rolling and tumbling down the majestic sides during three terrific storms. And the ancient sea once extended to the base of the mountains. Therefore, water made all of South California from the sea to Riverside. It is not a volcanic or earthquake region at all. T...hat wide plain is as safe as the plains of Illinois, for they have had more earthquakes in Central and Southern Illinois, Missouri and Northern Arkansas than in Southern California. I have not seen a trace of volcanic activity in the mountains, nor of faults near the beach. THE CAUSE OF IT ALL 153 I would as readily take chances in Southern California as in the Mississippi valley. 'Earthquakes in California do not disturb a very wide area. They are what may be called local. The earthquake at Lisbon in 1755 extended over an immense space, reach- ing from England, the Baltic provinces.
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