Salt Lake Herald | 1908-03-28 | Page 2 | Recorded at University

RECORDED AT UNIVERSITY Seismograph Record Indicates Dis Disturbance Was of Great Violence The The seismograph at the university re recorded recorded recorded corded the earthquake which destroyed the town of Chilapa In Mexico The rec rel record ord on the Instrument Is extremely marked and shows that the th quake qu ke ex extended e tended over oer a period of ot fifty minutes The period of or great disturbances indi indicated Indicated on the machine By the wide amplitude amplitude amplitude tude of on the smoked plate was of ot about minutes dura duration duration duration tion This period of ot violent shocks was preceded and followed by slighter sll trem tremors tremors tremors ors The machine Indicated that the quake came from the south and south southeast southeast southeast east I Dr F J Pack Deseret professor of ot geology who has charge of the seismograph seIsmograph seismograph graph states that from the tho records left lefton lefton lefton on the machine the Ule shock shook was one of the strongest he had ever known A com corn comparison parison parkson of ot the trace with that of or the San Francisco earthquake recorded on a seis seismograph seismograph In Washington D C shows the theone th thone theone one of Thursday night more severe and of much longer er duration The shock was recorded at the university about