[time-nuts] Poor termination effects?

[Rex]

I live in the San Francisco bay area. You may recall that back in 1989 
we had a big earthquake that did a lot of damage.

The epicenter was near Loma Prieta, which became the name for this 
earthquake. That is about 60 miles south of San Francisco, yet a lot of 
the bad damage occurred there, at the tip of the peninsula. My twisted 
engineer's mind caused me to think that such a locus of damage so far 
from the source may have been due to a poor termination of the peninsula 
into the ocean/bay.