Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-31
SE|SMOCRAPH
TELLS THE TALE
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GENTLY heavy to cause frame build
lngs to sway giddily.
Telephone reports from Weaver
vile, Eureka, Dunsmuir, Fall River
Mills and Weed, all in the extreme
northern part of California were that
the quake had been felt in varying de-
grees of intensity. 1t also was felt
at klamath Falls, Oregon.
No damage was reported.
MAShINGIUN, Jan. OLA tre-
-Iendous earthquake disturbance is
II somewhere between @,4UU and
,0UU miles distant south OF WASH
.4gton, rather francs Tondor OF
georgetown University declared to-
.ay, on the basis OIL seIsmograpn
ecorQs IL his observatory.
Inc quake first registered at $50
. N. TO-DAY, he SalQ, ana continued
.4Un increasing intensity unuI 900
.4.en the neeaIe OF the SelsmograpA
as tnroWn OH the scale. Inc Iremors
ere stuI beng registered on ouner
.sIrumentS al II a. m. ne salu.
Harvard shocked
CAMBk1DGE, Mass, Jan. 31.-An
,4rgnquake so violent that it threw
,ue recorQIng neeale OF Its tracing
arm was recorded at harvard Uni
Verslty station To-Day. Inc Selsmo
graph lndIcated that the disturbance
was several thousand miles away.
Professor J. B. Woodward, director
OF the seIsmograph station, stated
mat IAN unusually heavy earthquake
snock was recorded shortly after 5
o'clock this morning. At about $40
It became so violent the needle went
off tie drum on winch the record Is
made, putting the selsmograpn tenn
porarlly out Of commission
Professor Woodward estimated
that the earthquake was about 2,77S
miles from Cambridge.
WeTst in Years
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 31.-A
violent earthquake, one of the most
pronounced IN recent years, was re-
corded today on the selsmograph at
St. Ignatius College.
According to Father Odenbach, the
earthquake is approximately, 5000
miles from Cleveland, in southern
Mexico, or further south in Central
America.
The first shock was registered at
6:24 a. m. 1t continued on a large
scale until o:29. Then it diminished
somewhat but within a few minutes
the seismograph again was starting
its record OF a gigantic earth dis
turbance.
Trying To Locate 1t
CHICAGO, Jan. 31-Earth tremors
recorded at Chicago university today
were placed at 1870 miles from the
city. This indicated the disturbance
was probably in the region of the Pa
clfic, as eastern seismograph experts
placed the distance at more than
$500 miles.
Other seismographs in the Great
Lakes district, however, registered
the distance at about 5000 miles,
which would place the disturbance
more to the south than the west
Father John Kremer, Marquette
University, at a. m. said ne esti-
mated the shock about 5000 miles
southwark.
Worst Ever
DENVER, Colo, Jan. 3l.-The
most severe earth tremors ever re-
corded on the seismograph at Sacred
Heart College here were registered
on the instrument this forenoon, ac-
cording tc Father William Forstall
of the college. The tremors contin-
ued for an hour.
Needle Out of Commission
BERKELEY, Calf, Jan. 31.-Vio-
lent earth vibrations were recorded
by the seismograph at the University
of California today beginning at 5:18
a. M, the motion lasting until a.
NJ.
The needle of the recording ma
chine was thrown out of action, max
ing the readings difficult to inter
pret accurately.
According to university seisrlo-
graph experts the center of the dis
turoance was not more than 600 miles
distant, but this they qualified as a
rough estimate"
Mexico Didn't Have 1t
SAN LUIS, Sonora, Mexico, Jan.
31.-Radio queries sent throughout
northwestern Mexico today revealed
the fact that this mornings earth
quakes, recorded at various seisno-
Dh stations throughout the United