The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-18
EQUALS SAN FRANCISCO QUAKE
Earthquake OF Unusual Proportions
Indicated by instruments
Location Cannot Be Estimated With
Certainty Thought to be i'm the
NeighborhoOd Of the Bermudas-
Occurred Shortly After o O'Clock
And Lasted For Two Hours,

Albany, y. Y, October 16.-The oc-
| curence OF an earthquake of unusual
PROPORTIONS was indicated by the seis
| mograph at the state museum which
| registered its passage during a period
| OF nearly an hour today. The records
show the disturbance to have originat-
On at distance of about 5000 miles
from = lbany and the vibrations of
one of fbe H.. etruments were so violent
as to exceed ifs INIT for registering
According to a bull. tin issued by
State Geologist Clark, the de- eclon OF
the transmission cannot be stated with
certainty, though from comparison
of two records received the center or
the disturbance would seem to have
been somewhere TO the south or south
west. The arrival of the first waves
We're recorded at 9:04 a. m., and OF thef
main vibrations at 9:14 a. m. The lat
ter lasted about five minutes, after
which the swings gradually subsided
but were traceable for about an hour.
Baltimore. October 16-The seismo-
graph at John Hopkins university
shows that the earthquake was the
strongest recorded by that instrument
since that at San Francisco. The re-
cord shows that thedist urbance began
q few minutes past 8 o'clock and con-
tinued for period of two hours. The
most violent tremor was at 9:13 and
during the II minutes following the
needle of the seismograph was shaken
entirely off the recording cylinder.
Professor Reid said that the record
of the shock on the Hopkins seismo
graph was OF about the same intensity
as the record of the San Francisco
earthquake
Professor Harry Fielding Reid, pro-
fessor of geological physics, who has
charge of the Hopkins seismograph
said today that while he had not as
yet had time to study the earthquake
fully he was inclined to believe that
the center of the disturbance was not
more than 1000 miles away, possibly
in the South Atlantic ocean in the
vicinity Of the Bermudas.
Toronto, OMIT, Ocober 16.-An eX-
traordinary earthquake shock was re-
corded on the Toronto observatory Sc
ismograph at 8: OF. At 9: Is the tremOrs
exceeded the scale limit of the instru-
ment and continued for about three
minutes The vibrations continued for
about three minutes The vibrations
continued until 10:45. The quake Is
estimated to have occurred 5000 miles
away, presumably south from here.
New York, October 16.-Inquiries
among all of the cable companies to-
day failed to disclose any interruption
{ communication in the two Americas.
Those lines which run through the
West Indies and to Central and South
America We're reported as working
smoothly and the officials of the conf
panies said that none of their offices
or those of connecting lines to the
south had reported any earthquake
disturbance AS the field thus covered
embraces all of the West Indies, all Of
Central America and both coasts of
South America, it is thought that the
quake recorded by various seismo-
graphs today did not occur in any
largely populated region on the west
ern hemisphere. It probably was an
| under-ocean disturbance.
Washington, October 16.-An earth
quake of great violence was recorded
by the seismograph Of the weather
bureau today, The strongest motion
of the disturbance began shortly after
9 o'clock this morning and subslded
| about six minutes later, the approx
mate time as first shown by the gov
'nment instruments being from s:14
el 20.
~ a. earthquake, which was one q
lne violent ever recorded here
'ie must own on the seismograph a
do aiSo Sh geodetic survey magnetic
Tue eoaSt ana rheltenham, Maryland
ousei FaCory al here showed the vi,
The instrument t. "a Ae n a.c+e~r
brations began at s., >ontinued aho,,t
standard time. and c n disturbance
two hours. The maximu. >ak
was from 9:14 to 9:20 o'clc 80.
The weather bureau was -
pared from examination of the
mograph record, to make any anne
cement as to the probable distance
direction.