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Reporting that the Allies could expect no earthquake of sufficient intensity to disturb the Japanese war effort, L. Donald Leet, assistant professor of Seismology dismissed the tremor in the Sea of Japan two days ago as a "routine, almost sub-normal" quake, of which the Harvard seismographs got a clear record...
...Normal expectancy doesn't lead us to hope for a major quake near any large population centers," said Professor Leet. "The Japs are well able to take care of themselves, since they have so many every year." Reasonably large quakes come once in three years, on the average, but well-trained rescue crews are on the spot in "a matter of hours", and rehabilitation goes on at the same time as does careful study of the situation...
...Harvard's internationally known earthquake authority, Lewis Don Leet, assistant professor of Seismology, was out of town yesterday and could not be reached for comment on Landsberg's statement, but one of his assistants indicated that Professor Leet did not think that the U. S. could count on a Japanese earthquake...
...discovery that rocks under great pressure will break as well as flow, which is the basis of the new hypothesis, was made by David T. Griggs, a junior fellow at Harvard, Dr. Leet said...
...Ossipee earthquake, the center of disturbance was 21 miles below the surface, and the quake came as a result of a sudden break in the rock. The second shock at Lake Ossipee was probably due to a gigantic underground rebound from the first, Dr. Leet said...