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There is only one thing more startling than a bolt from the blue, and that is a shock from the earth-to have the earth heave and quiver. An earth shock, of quite respectable intensity, came thus suddenly to startle the northeastern U. S. It was not quite 9:30 in the evening (Eastern Time) when a series of quivers began. They were felt all through New England and New York, ebbing away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault...
...since Nov. 4, 1908,* have Harvard men had such a shock," said one William Everett. He referred to the resignation, announced last week, of Le Baron Russell Briggs, 70, Professor of English, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Everett's words were uttered in full knowledge of the many grievous shocks which, since that momentous fourth of November, have distressed the sons of Harvard - the recent removal of Prof. George Pierce Baker to Yale (TIME, Dec. 8), the threatened departure of Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School (TIME, Jan. 26). He recalled the lacrimose demonstrations...
Asked what has been learned concerning the nature of the shock last night, Professor 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...
...many parts of Cambridge and Boston the shock was not felt at all. Professor Daly said that this was due to "blind spots" which are not yet fully understood. The reason that audiences in Boston theatres were totally unaware of the shock, he said, is that the buildings have very firm foundations...
...Professor Daly's students, W. W. Porter 1G. of Denver, Colorado, has prepared a paper on the earthquake of January 7. It will appear shortly in the "Bulletin of the Seismological Society" published by Leland Stanford Jr. University. The paper fixes the center of disturbance of this shock somewhere near Cape Anne...