Gorge from Cerro Noroeste Road

"A severe shock of an earthquake was felt in this city yesterday morning, a few minutes after 8 o'clock, causing a considerable degree of consternation and alarm, particularly in the lower part of the city, where the shock was more severely felt than in the upper portion. A frame house, situated in the rear of the intersection of California and Market streets, occupied by Peter J. Evans and family, was shaken from its foundation and moved several feet to the southward. The house was elevated some four or five feet from the planking, and stood upon piles; beneath it were placed a number of barrels and boxes. When the under-pinning gave way, the floor of the house rested upon the boxes and barrels, and was broken through in several places. A little girl who was in the house, asleep at the time, narrowly escaped, as the floor beneath her bed was broken through. The shock was generally felt throughout the city—clocks were stopped, gas burners were shaken, crockery and tin rattled in the stoves, and at a hotel on Davis street, where the boarders were breakfasting at the time, the shock was so severe that men, women and children left the table and rushed to the street. By telegraph from Sacramento, we learn that the shock was felt in that city between 7 and 8 o'clock A.M. About a year ago, a similar, though much more severe, shock was felt in this city. It is stated that no less than sixty shocks of earthquakes have been felt in this city within the past five years."