Word: seismographs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sided young mining tycoon. When her husband comes home, she decides after a brief period of reluctance to go to California. The mining man (John Boles) is the one who sees her off at the station. All this is competently enough put together but, if tested by an emotional seismograph like the "Lie Detector," its graph would be full of dead spots. Shot: Greta Nissen asking her patron to buy her an emerald bracelet...
Explaining the difference between the earthquake which recently shook New York State and the one in Nicaragua on Friday, April 10, which caused a great deal of damage. Dr. L. Don Leet, Seismologist-in-charge of the Harvard Seismograph Station, said "The earthquakes which occur in New England and vicinity are surficial, seldom extending to a depth of more than 200 feet, whereas the earthquakes which are typical of Central America, the Western coast of the United States, and Japan, are deep-seated, continuing from the surface to a depth of 25 miles...
When the press reports of an earthquake in Nicaragua at 11.10 o'clock in the morning were received today, it was found upon examination of the records at the Harvard Seismograph station that the waves were still being recorded at noon. Although the quake was reported as having done damage near its center, it was only of moderate intensity, as indicated by the record. The maximum disturbance was recorded in Cambridge at about 11.25 o'clock. Since Nicaragua is approximately 2200 miles south of Cambridge, the first waves reached here about 6 3-4 minutes after the shock occurred there...
...severest storms in the history of the Harvard seismograph station occurred last, Wednesday, it was announced yesterday by L. D. Leet, seismologist in charge. It started early in the morning and continued through the night. These rythmatic earth-vibrations have puzzled seismologists for many years. In the last storm the earth's crust in this vicinity was agitated by ripples causing vibrations as great as one thousandth of an inch, or five times as great as those recorded in a similar storm last December...
...severe earthquake, lasting for over three hours, and of an origin estimated at 10,350 miles from Cambridge, was recorded yesterday morning at 1.54 o'clock at the Harvard Seismograph Station. The quake occurred about 20 minutes before the first waves reached Cambridge, having come from a location which is a little over 200 miles short of half way round the globe from here. The quake was of a kind that makes definite computations difficult to obtain...