Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-11
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and destruction of fragile objects was

and destruction of fragile objects was
| reported
| In New York City the preliminary
| tremor was felt at 1 80: 10. AT L: 5.4o
| the shock had reached it's maximum OF
intensity, and at 1880 the movement
subsidized altogether, making the total
| of duration of the quake two and one
! quarter minutes, as given by the
seismograph The period in which the
| shock was noticeable by man was from
| 10 ito 80 seconds, and started in a ma
! jority of cases about 1875. So far as
known the movement was from north
west to southeast with the boundary
lines of the territory affected converg-
ing at a point in the Atlantic.
The initial movement of the quake oc-
Cured at points near the upper Attain
tic seaboard about 135 and extended to
places in the northern parts of New York
state about three minutes later, reaching
Albany at 1.3S, Watertown at LS9 and
Rochester at 1.37.
From points located between these cit
les the movement is reported TO have
taken place between 1874 and 1S7. No
seismographic records being obtainable
from these localities the time given in
these cases deals with the moment when
the shock was felt.
Points in central Massachusetts, report
the disturbance to have occurred shortly
before the time recorded by the seismo-
graph of the Museum of National Hsto-
ry of New York. At Philadelphia the
shock was felt at 1.33, and Georgetown
University, Washington d. c., reports
that its seismograph marked the first
tremer at HI this morning, recording
the first actual shock at 134 The seismo-
graph of the Harvard geological observ-
atory Cambridge, Mass, recorded the
first tremor at 1.33. 25 and marked total
subsistence of the disturbance at L4034,
overlapping both initial movement and
end the records taken in New York city.
According to DR.. Edmond o. Hoyey,
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 on his
instrument yesterday at irregular In
tervals and throughout the last "a
haurse slight disturbances were re
corded by it. the general character In
dicating that the movement was slight
and entirely local.
The last earthquake registered by
the sesmograph of the American Mu-
scum took place Nov. >, 112, and oc-
Cured iii Alaska. The vibrations then
recorded were twice as great as those
made today.
According 10 James 8. 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
fissures in the strata of. the older
rock masses and themselves the prod
ucts of earthquakes.
The only part of Greater New YORK
which felt the shock of the earthquake
severely enough to alarm the popula-
tfen was the Heights section of Brook
| lyn. where those who had sensed the
shock were under the impression that
an explosion had occurred. In many
I of the tall office buildings of Manhat-
tan a slight tremer was felt, but the
| disturbance was not great enough to
/ cause the least excitement.