Italian quakes

Gizmodo has an article by George Dvorsky about the recent earthquakes in Italy:

A new ground displacement map shows the dramatic degree to which the Italian landscape moved during the 30 October 2016 earthquake, including an unfortunate mountain village that heaved over two feet.
This past Sunday, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy, the strongest to strike the country in nearly forty years. The quake was the third to strike the region in four days, causing serious damage to houses and other structures. The entire village of Arquata del Tronto was destroyed, as well as the historic Basilica of Saint Benedict in Norcia.
Areas on the map (above) in red shifted fifteen inches (forty cm) toward the perspective of the satellite, while areas in blue moved away to a similar degree.
In addition to being the strongest of the three quakes, the 30 October quake was also the shallowest, which is unfortunate for those living on the surface. Scientists from Italy’s Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment recently combined radar images from two satellites to analyze ground displacements caused by the quake. The resulting map shows dramatic ground deformations in the landscape relative to the direction of the satellite’s observations.
The earthquake caused the ground to shift across a fifty square mile (130 square kilometer) area. The land in-and-around the mountain village of Castelluccio heaved over seventy centimeters), causing extensive damage to the city’s structures. In the words of a resident: “We’ve returned to the Stone Age.”
Unlike conventional earthquake maps that show an epicenter and seismic strength, ground displacement maps provide an alternate glimpse of a quake and how it actually reshapes the landscape.

Rico says they didn't have this technology in 1906, so we can only guesstimate what happened in California...