Evening star., 1925-03-02
CENTER STILL SOUGHT.
Scientists Findings to Date Show
Wide Variance.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 2.-Having vir-
tually decided that last Saturday
evenings earthquake originated in a
substrata rock movement in the
eXtreme northeastern part of the
United States or in eastern Canada,
scientists are endeavoring to chart
the ,epicentral point more exactly.
Some held that the tremors which
shook a large area of the continent
were caused by a slip of rock in a
great fracture known as the Fundian
Fault, which lies deep in the Allan
tics bed off the Maine coast.
Others placed the quake near the
mouth of the Saguenay River in the
province Of Quebec. This region lies
IN Logans Fault a geologically rest
less rock formation that extends
down the Appalachians from the st.
Lawrence basis to Alabama
New York Held Safe.
New Workers We're assured by geol-
oglsts that their skyscrapers and
SubwayS were safe from earthoual5e l5e
damage, even though the most recent
quake-the third since Hendrix Hud-
sons visit-shook the buildings so
vigorously that thousands of citizens
became alarmed.
The night watchman in the Wool
that there had been quake. said =:
Quit your kidding"
lendlng to SubStantiate the opinion
that the approximately correct point
was the lower st. Lawrence Basin.
were the assertions of several experts
that the tremors had followed the line
or Logans fault, great fracture in
the earth's crust which occurred ages
ago. This formation, it was explained,
hPR1nS a
Lawrence, extending to Montreal. and
thence down the Appalachian range
as far as Alabama. Last nights 6
tremors were probably caused by a
subterranean slipping of rock along
the Fault.
New Yorks experience with earth
quakes is so limited that the dis
turbance caused considerable alarm.
Citizens of the metropolis however
were assured that the basal rock
foundation on which the skyscrapers
stand has gone through such a con-
ditioning process that it is immune
from serious quakes. Biologists of
the American Museum of Natural His
tory said New Workers need never
fear destruction, or even incon-
venience; from a seismic disturbance.
Stopped at River.
saturday evening shocks appar
emily stopped at the Mississippi River.
They were recorded on a seismograph
in Denver. and at the government
observatory at Victoria, B. c., but
the tremors were not felt in the
prairie provinces of Canada.
DR.. d. w. Johnson, professor of
physiography at Columbia University
today advanced the theory that the
earthquake originated in a fault
under the Gulf of Maine
AS located by DIR. Johnson. this
fracture in the rock bottom under
the sea is about $50 miles long, ex-
tending from the head of the Bay OF
Fundy south to the coast of Massa-
chusetts. He said the fact that the
tremors were apparently most vio-
lent at Boston and Nantucket, Mass
bore out this theory.
DIR. Chester Reeds of the American
Museum of Natural History said that
his calculations indicated that the
quake had originated in a slide OF
rock in the Atlantic off the Maine
coast. DR.. Reeds said his study OF
the seismograph charts caused him
to believe strongly that the tremors
were due TO a new movement in the
fault mentioned by DR Johnson.
This, fracture, called by DR.. John
son the F'undian fault, had been dor
mant for long time before its dis
covery, about three years ago. Soon
after it was found, however, it be-
came active, and as recently as last
September 20 it caused siesmic dis
turbance in the Aroostook Valley,
Maine.
Further support of this theory was
seen in the severity of the tremors
generally in New England and east
ern Canada.
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