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Show WIDE CRACKS MARK UTAH QUAKE CENTER Violent Surface Changes Inspected By Pack Near Kelton Utah geologists who fix'.'d the epicenter of Monday's earthquake disturbances in the area north of Great Salt Lake, have been vindicated by Mother Nature. Four enormous fault scarps, extending from a quarter to a half-mile in length, and fully 50 mud volcanoes have been developed devel-oped in the lower end of Hanzcl valley, 15 miles southeast of Kelton Kel-ton in Boxelder county, on the north end of Great Salt Lake, according ac-cording to Dr. Fred J. Pack, professor pro-fessor of geology at the University Univer-sity of Utah, who spent Tuesday inspecting the interesting surface phenomena. The epicenter is within with-in three miles of the spot announced an-nounced by Dr. Pack Monday as the probable center of the quake. Some of the mud volcanoes thrown up during the convulsions measure four feet across with three-foot centers. Interesting Phenomena "The area presents the most interesting in-teresting series of earthquake manifestations that Utah has experienced in historical times," Dr. Pack declared. ' "The surface phenomena in : connection with the Long Beach earthquake is not to be compared with the Utah manifestations, although al-though the force of the two quakes probably was about equal. "Imagine a great crack across the earth, from four to six inches wide, extending a distance of five blocks, with one side of the fis- p sure a foot below the level of the other fissure," Dr. Pack he! id. "This will give you an idea of the largest of the scarps. Su rf ace Checkc rod In addition to ' the four large earth cracks, the surface of the ground is checkered with numerable numer-able smaller ones, Dr. Pack declared. de-clared. "When the first shock rocked the state Monday at 8:05 a. m., the great Locomotive Springs went dry." Dr. Pack said. "In fact, water ran into the spring instead in-stead of running out. This peculiarity pecu-liarity continued for half an hour, until alter the second violent shock, when the waters of the prings resumed their flow with approximately 30 per cent more volume than before. "The waters were colored with a reddish-brown sediment, which grew less abundant as the flow continued," he said. "Discolored (Continued on Page Six) 13 years had been stone dry, ue. veloped an abundant flow of water under stimulus of the earthquake Dr. Pack expressed a belief that the flow of water was a tempor-ary tempor-ary manifestation. ditches under the tracks to protect pro-tect a portion of the fill on the old main line. An artesian well at Cosmos, 50 miles west of Logan, which for WIDE CRACKS AT QUAKE CENTER (Continued from Fage One) water flowed from the springs for eight hours." "Not fewer than ,50 new springs and an equal number of mud volcanoes vol-canoes sprang into being and flowed abundantly, following the earthquake," he said. 'Some of the mud volcanoes were four and five feet in diameter, and built up cones to a height of three feet." "Water from most of the springs was fresh, but many produced pro-duced salt water." Count 20 Shocks "Between Monday noon and midnight," Dr. Pack said, "employes "em-ployes at the emergency landing field at Locomotive Springs counted count-ed 20 distinct disturbances At 4 p. m., while at the landing field, I counted four distinct shocks," he said. Employes at the department of commerce intermediate landing field reported that the disturbances disturb-ances were so violent that they loosened - weatherboards on the sides of the watch tower and moved the entire structure several inches to the west. Had the initial init-ial quakes continued for another minute, the structure would have collapsed, it was declared. Water that flowed from the newly created mud volcanoes poured on a flat that is normally dry and so rapid was the accumulation accu-mulation of the water that the Southern Pacific company dispatched dis-patched crews to the scene to dig |