Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-11
Shocks Cover
 a Wide Area
EARTHQUAKE FELT FROM CAM
 ADA TO WASHINGTON.
AND WEST TO ST. LOUIS
Only One Fatality Reeorded-Laborer at 5inshamton Killed by cavins Tn
 of Trench-Some Chimneys Fell.

New York, Feb. 1o.-An earthauake lasting from Is to 30 seconds and dis turbing particularly what are geolog- ically known as the Devonian and Si- lurian sections of the northeastern parts of the United States, took place shortly after 1.30 o'clock this after noon, being especially severe in the central and northern parts of New York state. Virtually all of New York state, including this city, felt the shock, and New England generally lower eastern Canada and parts of New Jer- sey and eastern Pennsylvania were shaken. Tremors were recorded as far south as Washington and as far west as St. Louis. At Albany, in this state, the shock was severe enongh to shake pictures from the walls of the capitol, while at Binghaxnton a laborer. Rocco Parse. was killed by the caving in of a trench in which he was working.
 Several Chimneys Fell.
 At Fort Plain the heavy doors of bank vault shook under the influence of the quake. and from other parts of the state the falling of chimneys, swaying of houses and destruction of fragile objects was reported
 In New York city the preliminary tremor was felt at 1.s5.15. At 1.35.45 the shock had reached its maximum of intensity, and at 1.ST.30 the movement S0OSlQoQ AAIOBGtnST, uldkIlS lAe lOId4 O1 duration of the quake two and one quarter minutes, as given by the seismograph. The period in which the shock was perceptible by man was from ten to thirty seconds and started in a majority of cases about 1.S6.
 So far as known the movement was from northwest to southeast, with the boundary lines of the territory affect ed convergfng at 8 point in the Att lantic
 Initial Movement at 1.35 p. m.
 The initial movement of the quake occurred near the upper Atlantic sea board at 135 a. m. and extended to places in the northern parts of New York state about three minutes later, reaching Albany at 1.sS, Watertown at 1.39 and Rochester at ;1.37. From points located between these cities the movement is reported to have taken place between 13A and 1855: No from these localities, the time given in these cases deals wiFss tn emoment when tho shock was t2ltss
 Points in central Massachusetts, among them Springfield and Worcester, report the disturbance to have occur by the seismograph of the Museum of Natural History of New York. At Philadelphia the shock was felt at 1.33, and Georgetown university, Washing ton, D. C.. reports that it's seismograph marked the first &renor at 11.41 this morning, recording the actual shock at 1.34. The seisTn ograph of the Harvard Geological Observatory, Cambridge, Mass, recorded the first tremor at 133.25, and marked total subsistence of the disturbance at 1.45.55, overlapping both in initial movement and end of the quake the records taken in New York city.
 Slight Disturbance for 24 Hours.
 According to Dr. Edmund OHovey, curator of geology of the American Museum of Natural History, the char acter of the record left by the seismo- graph in his institution shows that the movement of the quake was not at tended by great lateral oscillations. Slight tremors were registered by his instrument yesterday, and throughout the last 24 hours light disturbances were recorded by it, their general char aeter indicating the movement was slight and entirely local
 The last earthquake registered by the seismograph of the American Mu- scum took place on Nov. 8. 1911, and occurred in Alaska Vibrations then recorded were twice as marked as those made tonight. No local seismic disturbance comparable in magnitude with the one recorded today can be re- called by the attaches of the museum.
  was the tremors from the Charleston, s, C., disturbance in 1886. In 1884 general disturbance took place over the greater part of the area affected to- day.
 Siiaht Tnenor Felt in Skyscrapers.
 According to James s. Kemp, head of the department of geology of Co., lumbia university. the movement to- day followed in northern New York the line of the Champlain fault, while in Canada it may have travelled along the Logan fault, both of them huge Assures in the strata of the older rock masses and themselves the products of earthquakes.
 The only part of Greater New York whicf, felt the effect of the earthquake shock sufficiently to alarm the popu- lace was the Heights section of Brook Iyn, where those who had sensed the shock were under the impression that an explosion had occurred. In many Of the tall office buildings of Manhattan a slight tremor was felt, but the disturb ance was not great enough to cause the least excitement.