The Irish standard., 1907-10-19
VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE,
BUT where WAS IT?
sEtsMocRAPH Is DISTURBED At
ALBANY, N. ", AND WASHING.
TON WEATHER BUREAU,
IT'S LOCATION is
A DEEP MYSTERY
Official Instruments Show Great Up.
heavaI Somewhere, But Its Direc.
ton Cannot Be petermlned-Wash.
ington Bureau Issues Bulletin.

Washington D. c., Oct. 17.-An
earthquake of great violence was re.
corded by the seismograph at the
weather bureau Wednesday, but the
authorities have not been able to dis
cover the location of the disaster, and
no reports of it have been made other
than through the seismograph. The
strongest motion Of the disturbance
began shortly after 9 a. M. and sub.
sided about six minutes later, the ap.
proximate time as first shown by the
government instruments being from
9:14 to $3.50 a. m.
Bulletin From Weather Bureau.
The weather bureau issued the fol-
lowing bulletin:
"Just after the sheets of the seismo-
graph were changed this morning a
great earthquake was recorded, the
record of which has not as yet been
entirely completed. The precise be-
ginning of the disturbance cannot be
made out. as yet, but it was noticed,
before the strong motion began, that
an earthquake was occurring, and the
record was adjusted to the middle
portion of the sheet. Even with this
precaution, however, the motion Of the
instrument was so great as to carry
the recording lever far beyond the
margin of the sheet so that this dis
turbance was evidently Of consider
able violence.
Strong Motion for Six Minutes.
''The strong part of the motion be.
gan at 9:14 a. M, but its duration was
relatively short and subsidized at about
500 a. NJ, seventy fifth meridian time.
"The amplitude of the strong action
was apparently as great as fourteenth
of an inch at Washington. Full de-
tails Of the record cannot be made out
until the instruments have ceased re-
cording and the record sheets can be
removed for examination and meas
urement. The foregoing times can
only be given approximately at pres
ent." =. s.
AZ Recorded at Albany.
Albany. N. Y, Oct. 17.-An earth.
quake Of great proportions, in direc-
ton and at a distance not yet identi.
fed, began to record itself about 8
a. m. Wednesday on the seismograph
at the state museum. At 1915 a: m.
the movement was still in progress
undiminished.
Many Mysterious Shocks Felt.
Many mysterious earthquakes have
been recorded on the seismographs of
the world in the last few months. The
: location Of some of them was never
determined. Wednesdays shock ap.
pears to have been of greater violence
than any of the previous ones in
which seismograph record has been
discovered before the report of dam.
age to some city or locality has flash
ed over the wires.
Strongest Since Frisco Quake.
Baltimore. Nd, Oct. 1.-THE SETS
mograph at Johns Hopkins university
shows that the earthquake was the
strongest recorded by that instru.
ment since the San Francisco shock.
The record shows that the disturbance
began a few minutes past 9 o'clock
and continued for a period Of two
hours. The most violent tremor was
at 9:13 o'clock, and during the II
minutes following the needle Of the
seismograph was shaken entirely of
the recording cylinder.
Prof. 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.