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...Landsberg said the Japanese islands are the most active earthquake region in the world. As many as 400 temblors are recorded each year, usually of such minor nature as to be detected only by delicate seismographs...
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...
...Harvard's internationally known earthquake authority, Lewis Don Leet, assistant professor of Seismology, was out of town yesterday and could not be reached for comment on Landsberg's statement, but one of his assistants indicated that Professor Leet did not think that the U. S. could count on a Japanese earthquake...
...such a quake hits them again, it will certainly upset the Mikado's apple cart," Landsberg said. "Most of the dwellings in Tokyo and Yokohoma are flimsy, wooden things. It would take months of concentrated bombing to equal that damage inflicted by a sudden release of the tremendous energy stored in the bowels of the earth...
...autumn of 1924, in Landsberg Fortress in Bavaria, Adolf Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf: I, however, resolved now to become a politician...