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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...
...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...
Rising Sierra. Study of the records of eleven seismograph stations taken during an earthquake last Thanksgiving day in Nevada and California indicated that the Sierra region is rising, said Professor Perry Byerly, seismologist of the University of California. A comparison with recent material on Pacific Ocean disturbances showed a heavier granite formation in the Pacific region, indicated that the ocean bed is crowding against the lighter Sierra region, is shoving the mountains higher...
...call tectonic earthquakes: slipping and faulting of the earth's crust either from subsurface erosion or (as many now hold) a result of the gravital pull of the sun and moon. Though Vesuvius had been in mild eruption for a fortnight before last week's quake, Italy's greatest seismologist, Professor Giovanni Agamennone, insisted that last week's cataclysm belonged to the latter class...
Manhattan's leading seismologist, Father Joseph Lynch of Fordham University, talked about flywheels...