Show 1 1 EARTHQUAKES TO CESE CEASE WHEN NHEN STOPS Wasatch Mountains Must Quit Grow Growing Growing ing ig Before Danger of Shift of is i Removed Describing the groat gOt Wasatch Vatch fault faul plane along which on May 22 oc occurred currel a a tip Alp Ip that Jarrod jarred all al of or the th Salt Sl Lake valley Dr Fred Fre J Pack of ot the University of Utah delivered doUer an inter interesting IntEr eating esting ng lecture Ju last I night before the tho t o Utah Uth Society of Engineers in the te Newhouse building After discussing In general Volcanoes and amI earthquakes which have gone down in history ho directed his remarks to the Great Gret fault to earthquakes plane pino in Utah Uth and its It It relations relation Thero are two kinds kind of ot distinct earthquakes he said the and the volcanic The Tho earthquakes are those thoe with wih which we in this part of tho the country count have hav to contend with withIn withIn withIn In the kind where earth erth blocks slip Bip the disturbance dl Is felt fel with wit equal severity In many man distant parts pr At San Sn Francisco In 1906 the te great gret disaster was Wf caused by blocks bloks of or earth erth slipping upon each ech other In Ina Ina ina a horizontal horl direction The horizontal displacement was ws twenty feet and the tho vertical displacement was wa but a n few Inches Inch Tho The great Wasatch fault fult faul plane ex ox extends extends tends from on the south uth to t Col ColI I ni ton on the north In traversing this distance It passed through Nephi Panguitch Spanish Fork Prove American Fork Draper braver raDer cuts across ACI the mouth of or the Cottonwood canyons to t the back of or Fort Douglas passes Je across acrO Dry canyon behind the tower on the hill bill hi behind the tho Warm Springs Spring flecks Becks Dels Hot Springs and anil an 11 thence north to Collinston Coln lon The rho earthquake on May Ilay 82 32 2 was wa caused by a n slip of ot the surface of ot about abut of ot an nn inch In speaking of oC the future I would woul say en y that tha we are very ver safe fe The Wa Wasatch V latch satch mountains are now old and and when they te have havo ceased ce to grow we will wi have no more earthquakes If I however anything an should happen so f a that the tile fault taul would be as B great groat grot as a thirty feet fet there would not be a n house standing In the town I do not be believe beHove Hove lieve leo however that we are in any danger of ot a disaster |