The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-02-13
= FEELS EARTH TREMBLING
PerceptibIe Shocks in New York and
Yicinity-LabOrer Loses
Life.


Life.
New York, Feb. 1O-An earthquake
lasting from is to 80 seconds and
disturbing practically wat is geologi-
ca!ly known as the 'Devonian and
Siluriaa. sections of the Northeastern
paris Of the United States" took
place shortly after 1:30 o'clock p. m.
today. 1t was especially severe in
the central and northern parts Of
New York Stale. Virtually all of New
York State, including this city, felt
ne shock, and New England gen
orally, lower eastern Canada and parts
Of New Jersey and eastern Pennsyl
vania were shaken. Tremors were
recorded as far south as Washing
ton and as far west at St Louis.
At Albany the shock was severe
enough to shake pictures from the
walls Of the capitol, and at Bing-
hamton a labo' er was killed by the
caving in Of a trench in watch he
vas working. At Fort Plain the heavy
doors of bank vault shook under
he influence of the quake and from
other parts of tle State the falling of
chimneys swaying Of houses and de-
.truction OF fragile objects was re-
ported
Over Two Minutes.
In New York city the preliminary
uemor was felt at 1873. At1:35:45
,.e shcck had reached its maximum
intensity and at 1870 the move
4.eAt subsided aItogethe., making the
,o,al duration of the quake two and
ore quarter minutes as given by the
seismograpa. The period in which the
saock was perceptible by man was
from 10 to 30 seco2ds and started in
majority of cases about 1.35
So tar as known the movement was
rom northwest to southeast, with
the boundary line of the territory at
.evted cou' crying to a point in the
Atlantic.
The initial movement was at points
near the upper Atlantic seaboal d
about 1;35 and extended to places in
the Gorthern parts of New York State,
about three minutes later, reaching
Albany at 1:3S; Watertown; at t:39,
and Rochester at 1877. From points
between these cities the movement is
reported to have taken place between
I:34 and I:37. No seismographic rec
ords being obtainable from these 10
calities, the time given in these cases
deals with the moment when the shock
was felt.
Earlier in Other Places.
Points in central Massachusetts re-
port the disturbance to have occurred
shorty before the time given by the
seismograph of the Museum Of Natural
History of New York. At Philadelphia
the shock was felt at 1873 and George
town university at Washington, D. c.,
that its seismograph marked
the first tremor at 11:41 this morn
ing, recording the actual shock at
1.34 The seismograph Of the Har-
ward geological observatory, Cam
bridge, Mass, recorded the first tremor
at 1:35:25 and marked total subsi-
dence of the disturbance at 1:40:34,
overlapping both in initial movement
and end of quake the records taken in
New York city.
The last earthquake registered by
the seismograph of the American Mu
scum took place on November 8,
1912, and occurred in Alaska. The
vibrations then were twice as great as
those made today. No local seismic
disturbance comparable in magnitude
with the one recorded today can be
recalled by the attaches of the mu
scum. The last earthquake. felt in
New York took place in the terrotory
of Charleston, S. c., in 1885. In 1884