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...paraffin when a spark exploded it. Died. Sadao Saburi, 50, Japanese Minister to China, onetime Counselor of the Japanese legation at Washington; at Miyanoshita; by his own hand (revolver). Apparent cause: depression since the death of his wife in 1927. Died. Rev. Francis Anthony Tondorf, 59, famed Jesuit seismologist, director of Georgetown University Seismological Observatory ; at Washington; of heart disease. For 25 years he located, observed, reported some 9,000 earthquakes yearly. Died. Robert Forster Whitmer, 65, President of Central West Virginia & Southern R. R. of West Virginia; at Chestnut Hill, Pa. Died. Charles James McCarthy, 68, onetime...
During the week famed Japanese seismologist Dr. Shinichi Kunitomi fairly beamed upon correspondents as he said: "We were very fortunate this time. The amplitude of the quake was such as to indicate a national catastrophe, but fortunately the centre of the earth movement was ten miles out at sea, off the Tango peninsula. That alone accounts for the present minimum of disaster...
Professor K. F. Mather, seismologist for the University and one of the most prominent geological authorities in the country, in an interview with the CRIMSON, said that the earthquake in Concord had no connection with the devastating one in Japan...
...speak of earthquakes in California. Ever since the geological disaster in San Francisco in 1906, all convulsions of the earth's crust have been referred to euphemistically; people do not say "since the earthquake" but "since the fire." What must be the courage, then, of Dr. Bailey Willis, seismologist and Professor Emeritus of Geology at Stanford University. Last week he declared that within the next ' ten years Los Angeles will be wrenched by a tremor worse than that of San Francisco...
...Daly replied that nothing definite has yet been determined. "The quake was extraordinary," he declared, "both for its strength and the wide area of disturbance. The center seems to have been about 100 miles distant from Boston either to the cast or west." Professor J. B. Woodworth, the University seismologist, is absent on sabbatical leave in Florida and hence cannot read the record of the seismograph. The cylinder has therefore been shellacked, and will be sent to Washington for study...