Word: seismic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geology 6b--Seismic Prospecting. Dr Leet. To be omitted...
...specialized, unique in the history of the science, perfected by H. G. Taylor, of Washington. Dr. Leet will conduct a course in the use of these instruments, which will begin the second half year. Under the name of Geology 6, it will deal with the study of seismography and seismic prospecting, a course which has never before been given at Harvard, for lack of the proper instruments...
...earthquake of moderate intensity was recorded at the Harvard Seismography Station Saturday morning, beginning at 2.14 o'clock. The distance from Cambridge is computed as approximately 4300 miles and the time at the origin at 2.03 o'clock. This distance from Cambridge crosses several active seismic areas including one on the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, one in South America. Italy and Central Europe. The exact location cannot be determined from the records of a single station, however the character of the record in this case, suggests South America as the probable source of the disturbance...
...Most famed "anti-seismic" building is the Imperial Hotel at Tokyo, the creation of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, which successfully withstood the 1923 quake. Its foundations are insloping, not vertical...
...Italian Cabinet as the day on which to announce its appropriation toward rebuilding the houses demolished fortnight ago when temblors cracked Italy's ankle from Naples to Bari (TIME, Aug. 4). One hundred million lire ($5,260,000) was set aside for the erection of several hundred "anti-seismic"* houses in the devastated region, for destroying uninhabitable dwellings, for shoring up those which are salvageable...