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...Ossipee earthquake, the center of disturbance was 21 miles below the surface, and the quake came as a result of a sudden break in the rock. The second shock at Lake Ossipee was probably due to a gigantic underground rebound from the first, Dr. Leet said...
...last week, another earthquake came to Mexico City. There was no need to tell any Mexican what it was. As the first quiver became a convulsive shock, clerks and politicos, smartly dressed girls and beggars dropped on their knees in the streets to pray...
Mild was the temblor felt in Mexico's capital compared with the spasm that shook provincial cities. Mexico City, reclaimed from swamp, rests on a shock-absorbing cushion of mud. The earthquake's center was on the Pacific Coast, between Manzanillo and the beach resort of Acapulco. From there it spread fanwise through the hills, north to Jalisco, south to Oaxaca...
Hardest hit was the tropical city of Colima (pop. 20,000) in the foothills near the coast. At the first shock the dam guarding Colima's water supply collapsed, power lines went down, communications were cut off. Half the buildings in Colima crumbled into dust. The cathedral, rebuilt after the quake that struck Colima in 1932, was destroyed again. That night Colima was lighted up by the dull glow of forest fires, touched off by the city's charcoal-burning dumps when panic-stricken workers abandoned them...
...United States, according to Hopper, is a completely bewildered country, every person possessing his own fears. America, he said, needs an "electric shock, a shock that will unite it behind a single cause. Only when America becomes frightened will there be an effort toward unity...