Word: seismicity
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...Words fail us to express our feelings of deep thanks for the sympathy you showed us on the occasion of the recent seismic disaster. Not only are the citizens of Tokyo and other cities and towns who were stricken by the calamity unfeignedly grateful for your humane help and compassion, but the whole Japanese people shares the feeling. We have been impressed more than ever by the fact that all men are brothers throughout the world and cannot refrain from offering you our sincere thanks...
...killed immense quantities of fish. Extensive zones of fish remains have been found throughout the northern hemisphere in the same rocks with rich bituminous oil deposits. Sometimes oil migrates long distances through porous sandstone and similar rocks. Crude petroleum Dr. Macfarlane has shown to be wholly animal in origin. Seismic disturbances, particularly near the sea, often develop new deposits of dead fish for the production...
...Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, peace advocate, useful citizen, and President Emeritus of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, was elected President of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. The recent solar eclipse, protection of the fishing industry, seismic disturbances were the chief topics of interest...
Advices to the Pioneer of Allahabad, India, stated that more than 1,000 persons were killed by seismic shocks in the little Persian town of Turbat-i-Haidari in the province of Khorasan which forms part of the great Iranian Desert plateau. The sheets lasted several hours and it is feared that many villages adjacent to Turbat-i-Haidari were devastated with a consequent further loss of life...
...Seismic disturbances caused heavy damage in the Balkans, particularly in the provinces of Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Dalmatia...