Word: seismologist
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...tendency among wishful-thinking, but not too well informed Americans, to believe that the Japanese Islands are one gigantic hotbed of potentially destructive volcanoes," said Leet. "In reality, this latest eruption is only one phase of a long chain of volcanic activity in Japan which dates from 1908," the seismologist explained...
CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (U.P.)--Japan is sitting on a huge powder keg whose tremendous forces could wreak more destruction throughout the island empire than all the bombing planes in the world, according to Dr. Helmut Landsberg, University of Chicago seismologist...
Lewis Don Leet, crack Harvard seismologist, does not want to be an alarmist -but he does his duty when he sees it. In the closing days of 1940, two earthquakes shook solid old New England, which is far outside the zone of major quakes (TIME, Jan. 6). Property damage was small and casualties practically nil; in Peru, Japan or California, the shocks would have been dismissed as trivial. Last week Dr. Leet said they might augur worse shocks to come...
...Seismologist Oak Ridge Observatory Harvard, Mass...
...once a year, faint ones every day. In the other group trifling temblors occur every 21 minutes and every 429 days; more or less violent ones every 11, 19, 22 and 33 years. To predict the approximate time & place of recurrence requires no great mathematical skill, especially if the seismologist has up-to-the-minute reports of the earthy quaverings going on all the time. To forecast the exact day and region as Cabinet-Maker Bendandi did last week, does, however, require a bold imagination...