Geologist Links Links' Coast Temblors With Montana NEW YORK June 30 AP AP- AP Experts were divided today as to the cause of the Ute Santa Barbara earthquake Ocean leakage accumulated accumulated j strain on the tho earths earth's crust I and extreme hot weather were among the causes assigned I There was also disagreement as asto asto asto to whether there was any relation between the tremors in Montana and those which laid Santa Barbara Barbara Barbara Bar Bar- bara in ruins Some experts said that there was no connection while others thought that the Montana shocks pulled tho the trigger that caused a twelve-mile twelve disturbance of rock strata under Santa Barbara Barbara Bar Bar- bara and vicinity Dr Herman L. L Fairchild professor sor emeritus of geology at the University of Rochester N N. Y T. said that the Montana tremor traveling underground might have touched off oft stored up strains in southern California He said that the tho Montana Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana tremor might also lead to further further further fur fur- ther shocks in the western mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain states in the next few days OCEAN LEAKAGE BLAMED The view that the Montana and California quakes were unrelated is held by William Bowie chief of the division of geodesy of the coast and geodetic survey at Washing Washing- ton The Tho earthquake at Santa Santo Barbara Barbara Barbara Bar Bar- bara is the same old story an ocean leakage said Professor T T. T J J. J See of the Mare Island observatory at San Francisco He lie expressed the belief that the disturbances in Montana Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana had no connection with those in Santa Barbara and suggested that possibly a recent hot wave in southern California had something to U do with the quake there Dr G G. S. S Townley of Stanford university said that experts had discovered earth strain three years ago In the Santa Barbara area and had predicted quakes These strains they believed had been gathering since the San Francisco quake of 1906 25 TEMBLORS RECORDED There has been unwonted seismic activity In north America this year ear about twenty-five twenty quakes at various various various va va- rious points from Alaska to Mexico having been recorded since January 1 at Fordham university N N. Y The Rev J J. J S. S OConnor O'Connor director of the seismograph attributed them all aU to the same general unknown cause A protracted period of seismic calm Is always followed bv by a gonod period period pe pe- nod of activity he ho said The first quake relieves the strain where It occurs but increase increases the strain elsewhere and the process continues until JIntil the surface of the tho earth adjusts adJusts adjusts ad- ad Justs itself to all the tho subterranean changes which took place during the period of calm S Eastern seismographs recorded the Montana disturbances as more violent than the Santa Barbara quakes This has nothing to do with the tha comparative loss of life and property property property prop prop- erty said Professor OConnor Santa Barbara was close to th the epicenter of the second disturbance while the epicenter of the Montana Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana shocks occurred In a sparsely settled area