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Show TO KEEP RECORD OF EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS United States Weather Bureau Will Watch for Seismic Disturbances la Future be smology s the so ence of e smo ogl cal phenomena In the future, a reco d of such phenomena w 1 he kept by the Salt Lake office of the Ln ted States weather bureau. 'WTien the hrst record has been nked Into the sheets Ltal wl 1 ha e experienced an earthquake or at least a touch of one For the gathering of data concerning quakes report cards are provided by the bureau. T ess are to be suppl ed to a 1 tl e co operatl e observers ln the sect on nder the weather care of the local office They ln turn will d stribute them to per sons repo-ted to have experienced d 3 turbances of the earth believed to come from seismic throes The record cards hale places for data as to whether the quakes are felt by an experienced or inexperienced observ er what the observer was doing at the time lying down s ttlng standing or walk ng-t-nature of the shocks the r ln tensity and duration. Tl a b anks also give the following table as Ind cative of sensations felt toy the average per son or persons during varying amounts of earthquake damage Bel s run pendulum clocks stopped alarm Fall of plaster slight damage scare Fa 1 of chimneys, walls cracked fright. Some houses partly or wholly cracked terror Bui dings ruined ground cracked panic |