Word: leet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to the reports in Boston papers, Ottawa was the center of yesterday's earthquake instead of the middle of the ocean, Dr. L. Don Leet, head of the Harvard seismograph station reported last night. Previously Dr. Leet had hazarded the guess that the center of the quake was in the ocean, but recent reports from other stations confirmed the fact that the worst tremors were somewhere in the vicinity of Ottawa...
...Leet said that the difficulty in tracing the quake was due largely to its intensity, since his own station had been completely disrupted and had recorded only a series of "whiteouts." There was every reason to believe that other stations in the vicinity had had the same difficulty...
...Leet said that he first learned of the earthquake when a Boston paper called him up at breakfast and informed him that there had been a series of tremors which had shaken up most of greater Boston. Leet was besieged by calls from New England residents and from newspapers, but he admitted that the most he could do was to "case a few troubled breasts," since his own station was not functioning...
While the new wave form has been observed only in records of explosions and has not yet been detected on records of natural earthquakes, Dr. Leet believes that "almost certainly" it will eventually be found among the natural tremors. He pointed out that in all other respects the natural and artificial earthquakes have proved to be similar...
...question which needs immediate investigation, Dr. Leet said, is whether the new wave form is mingled with the waves close to the sources of earthquakes, which do greatest damage. It may be found important to modify designs of earthquake-proof structures, to meet ground conditions set up by the wave...