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Equlpped with the means to provide seismologists a complete picture of what is happening inside the earth during quakes, a new kind of earthquake-recorder made its bow at the University Seismograph Station late last month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University's New-Type Seismograph Shows All Phases of Quake on Tape | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

Although the recent tremors in Maine from which this conclusion was drawn were slight, they created sufficient disturbance to be picked up by the University seismograph in Harvard, Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Will Feel Slight Quake, Predicts Mather | 1/16/1948 | See Source »

People within a 10 to 20 mile radius of the blast thought tires, boilers, or explosives had blown up, but no property damage was reported. As the seismograph at Weston, Massachusetts, showed no ground tremors, L. Don Leet '29, associate professor of Geology, believed the explosion airborne, Smith added, "No airplanes, however, have been reported missing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maine Mystery Blast Caused By Meteorite, Claims Theorist Smith | 12/11/1947 | See Source »

Shocker. In Austin, Tex., Physicist O. S. Hughes turned off his new seismograph for a while, remarked wistfully that a good earthquake had not obliged him yet, discovered next day that one had rocked Peru while the machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Primitive Terror. The High Flyer explosion, which was recorded by a seismograph in Denver, did more than sink a neighboring freighter and rake the remains of Texas City. It stirred a primitive terror. A wild evacuation jammed the roads out of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Pluperfect Hell | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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