Show YUCATAN VISITED BY AN EARTHQUAKE Tremors Recorded by the Seismograph in Washing Washington ton ion Weather Bureau COULD NOT BE LOCATED SOME FEAR THAT CANAL ZONE WAS THE SUFFERER I G G Mexico City Jan lAn earth carth earthquake quake was reported to the weather bureau here from Chico In Inthe Inthe the province of Quintana Roe Yu Yucatan 9 catan today It occurred at 4 a m and lasted twenty seconds It wis followed by a second shock o of Jess les severity at It Is not known whether serious damage was done c 0 00 Washington Jan Years day of 1910 has been ushered in with an earthquake It occurred during the early hours of dawn with the possibility ty in the minds of tilt tiit officials that damage has been done some somewhere where The force of the quake as recorded by the weather bureau here closely ap approximated the violence Iole of the big at San Francisco The bureau t figures guros that its greatest force was cit elt miles south and southwest of Washington The first shock was at a m the second at COS and the third at The third shock hock was so tong that It thrEw the delicate sew seiz pen off the cylinder Some Apprehension WEather bureau officials were lest the earthquake ed early today on the Isthmus of Colon Is 2100 miles hEre and as the wave was west and calculated at about miles distant they b there was some somo ground for Cor their tears fears The following was Is by Chief Moore of the weather burau bUlau today An unusually strong earthquake at ata n a moderate distance was recorded by bythe bythe the seismograph at the weather bureau burea this morning at 6 hours 4 and 8 a m meridian time lime The second preliminary tremor at Ii t hours S minutes 52 seconds and the strong motion just three minutes later late The was unusually great causing pen to pass off the record sheet In some The origin Is es to have been at a dl of about 2060 miles from Washington and probably to the south or southwest The total duration of the records was nearly two hours No Message From Panama The suggestion that the earthquake may have been In the vicinity of pant Pani ma based merely an calculation as to the approximate dIstance Indicated on the seismograph caused great Interest here Those at the Isthmian canal and Insular offices of the government had received no messages from Panama In indicating any disturbance In that see sec section tion LIeutenant Colonel Hodges of the canal commission on the canal strIp Is on a brief leave here and doubt doubtless doubtless less would have been notified promptly In case of anything of the kind happen happenIng lug Ing near the canal |