Show J v k 4 TREMOR l t f i U s Instruments Throughout United States Indicate C Center of Disturbance Miles to the South WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Jan 31 By United cress S Press e An earthquake shock so via vio- 1 nt as to to throw out of commission gate a ate record Instruments In sehimo- sehimo g h stations throughout the country w as s reported In various cities shortly after after iller 8 o'clock this morning The The disturbance recorded by the needles at Harvard and Georgetown universities c S was was the most mOt se severe ere in ino o ten years an and was believed to be somewhere somewhere in jn southern Mexico exico or Central Central America Early risers In to n San Francisco re reported ro- ro ported the they felt tremors of the earth but the weather veather bureau reported no local disturbances x Cleveland reported the tl quake ap- ap I ap-I miles mUes off oct while I i instruments at Harvard Indicated a disturbance about 2778 miles mUes away A tremendous earthquake disturbance disturbance disturbance disturb disturb- I ance ance Is on somewhere between 2400 I and 2500 2500 miles distance south of V Washington Father Francis Tondorf o 04 Georgetown university declared d to today to- to day t on on the basis seismograph records In hi Jils observatory The quake first registered register d at t aVim m. m today he ho said and continued with Increasing Intensity until 1136 when n the needle of the seismograph was thrown off the scale The tremors were still sun being registered on I oth other oher r. r Instruments at 1 i a a. m. m he said |