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...Department of Geology plans to sponsor a Natural Sciences course entirely within its own field, L. Don Leet, professor of Geology, stated yesterday...
Dissatisfaction with Natural Sciences 7, a combination astronomy-geology course, prompted the Geology Department's request to the Committee on General Education for a course of its own next year. Leet said that he felt there was "inadequate time for either science at the elementary level" in the present system...
Weston scientists blamed yesterday's tremor on "some breakage in the earth's surface." Leet said that the Northeast has nothing comparable to the celebrated "San Andreas fault," which has been the cause of numerous spectacular earthquakes in the Pacific coast area...
...Leet reviewed New England's earthquake history since 1755, the year of the last really severe shock in the area. For 100 years after this, he said, New England had no quakes of any consequence. Between 1850 and 1900 two "moderate shocks" were experienced...
Since 1900 "we have been having quakes more and more frequently," according to Leet. At present, quakes of the "moderate" variety seem to be spaced at about five-year intervals. "All in all, I think the Northeast is getting set up for another big one like 1755," he asserted...