Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-02-12

tremor was felt at 1866. At 1:25:43
the shock had reached it's maximum
intensity and at 1880 the movement
subsidized altogether, making the total
duration of the quake two and one
quarter minutes, as given by seismo-
graph. The period in which the shock
was perceptihle by human senses was
from 10 to 80 seconds long, and start
cd in a majority of cases about 1875.
So far as known the movement was
from northwest to southeast with the
boundary lines of the district affected
converging to a point in the Atlantic
ocean.
The initial movement of the quake oc-
CURED at points near the upper Atlantic
seaboard about 49, and extended to
places in the northern parts of New
York State about three minutes later
reaching Albany at 1:3S, Watertown at
1:S9 and Rochester at 1:37 From points
located between these cities the move
ment is reported to have taken place
between 1:34 and 1:37. No seismographic
records being obtainable from these
localities the time given in these cases
deals with the moment when the shock
was felt by man.
WASHINGTON IS JARED.
Points in central Massachusetts among
them Springfield and Worcester, report
the disturbance to have occurred shortly
before the time given by the seismograpl
Of the Museum Of Natural History of
New York. At Philadelphia the shock
was felt at 1:39, and Georgetown Uni
versity at Washington, p. c., reports that
&c Caic nj Cd ha
at n:i1 this morning. recording the
actual shock at "a.
The sesmograph of the Harvard geo.
logical observatory, Cambridge Mass,
recorded the first tremor at 1925 and
marked total subsistence of the disturb
ance at 1:40;94, overlapping both in initial
movement and end of the quake the rec
ords taken in New York city.
According to DIR. Edmund o Hovey,
curator of geology OF the American Mu-
eeum OF Natural History, the character
OF the record left by the se!smogrhph IN
his institution shows that the movement
Df the quake was not attended by great
lateral oscillations. Slight trcmors We're
registered on hts instrument yesterday al
irregular intervals, anc throughout the
last "a hours slight disturbances % the
earth crust We're recorded by it. their
general character indicating that the
movement was slight and entirely iocal
The last earthquake registered NY the
Reismograph of the American museum
took place on November g, 1912, and oc-
Cured In Alaska. The vibrations then
recorded were twice as great as those
ms de to-day.
n " ~ a
No local seismic disturbance compora-
BILE in magnitude with the one recorded
to-day can be recalled by the attaches OF
the museum. The last earthquake felt ir
New York took place IN tho territory Of
Charleston, 8. c., IN 1856. In 1854 n gen
eral disturbance took place over the
greater part os the area affected to-day
According to James S. Kemp, head of
the department of geology OF Columbia
University, the movement today fol-
lowed in northern New York the line
Of the Chamulain Fault while IN
Canada IT may have travelled along the
Logan Fault, beth Of which are huge
rIssures In the strata OF the older rock
masses. and themselves the products
of earthquakes.
The only part of greater New York
which felt the shock of the earth
quake severely enough 10 alarm the
population was the heights section of
Brooklyn, where those who had aensed
the shock were under the impression
that an explosion had occurred. in
many Of the tall office buildings Of
Manhattan slight tremor was felt,
but the disturbance was not great
enough to cause the least excitement.
No accidents due to the quake were
reported.
Cambridge, Mass, Feb. 1O.--Tho
seismograph at the Harvard geological
observatory showed that the earth
quake to-day was the heaviest record
ed since the instrument was set up
six years ago.
The maximum vibration was at
1885 p. m. Faint tremors had been
recorded nearly 12 hours before, but
these movements were believed to be
due to heavy surf on the Maine and
Nova Scotia coasts.
1t was the opinion Of tho university
scientists that the earthquake origin
ated l5O TO zoo miles southwest Of this
atty,