Show IV UTAH SCIENTIST 11 ON Dr Talmage of the State Uni University University University Gives Views as to The Cause I SHOCK FROM NORTH TO SOUTH 1 Wave Followed Course of Moun Mountain Mountain I tain lain Ranges Rannes Down the V Continent i i Center or Origin of ot Trouble Vii In III Inland 1 land Jand Tidal filial Wino no Have City Cily V 1 Dr James E I Talmage of ot tile the Utah Ulah c University today asked for tor hin hili p opinion as us to 10 tho cause origin and r f the destructive und mil desolating vi on time the Pacific const coast and andI Is irs what he ald lahI 1 I Until data more and reliable r are arc available It Is not possible to deter determine i mine tho the facts tact as ira to 10 It origin and courll t tot of ot the earthquake wave of ot yesterday 4 t by which HO wi a 11 catastrophe has hils befallen Sun tUi and the coast region In HID Ih present state Inte of or anxiety arid and uncertainty OK OHto a to the extent of or the calamity there Is little Inclination man mutt manifest I 1 to 10 consider earthquake phenomena as us problems of science i From I rom the dispatches It t appears that I r the lire course cour o of transit north iJ t Ir south eolith thus paralleling the general trend of if tile the mountain ranges cringes It U Is h isi i evident that tire the center of Jt disturbance or PICa pUcu of ot origin was Inland had It been a n short distance tho the lost t of or life lite In the tho cities and amid towns of ot tho time coast would been many times tUnes greater than It U was On reading tho the jj 1 first tidings of or the disaster embodying appears to 10 have brett been un an exaggerated I estimate of or lives hives lost heat my fear WillS wag sva Ii that tho the place of ot origin angie was In which case a great sea Ben wave would have rolled In with Inevitable devastation lion tion I AS ASTO TO OTHER SHOCKS As to 10 the tho Inquiry concern concernIng 1 I i Ing lug time tho probability of or litter later shocks hock I Ican It t can cun say suy only tins this There are no filets facts j I warranting a IL prediction of ot new earth earthquake quake disturbances dl In the tire region nevertheless shocks of or secondary ori origin on gin the after effects of ot time tho great quake of ot yesterday c tire arr to 10 be expect expected T ed eel These nitty amount to 10 little more moro than tremors yet they the may aray be of or do de destructive doI I Intensity The fhe basis of this Inference Is as liS follows One effect of Ic tire the he great groat earthquake wave Is the limo trite frac fracturing i turing luring of or tire the crust of or the earth within the area The solid crust Is 18 p cut cul by hy planes of or breakage and anel Is Its thus 1 literally split liP up Into Inlo blocks These Theco ti tend lend to It slip upon tipon one an another other until they attain a position of ot oft t stable equilibrium The Tho sliding anti and lipping slipping of cit the In the tho pro process prom m L ness cess of ot adjustment will surely give rise rJae i sli to jars which may range trout from gentle a tremors to violent shakings V Vl l I AS TO rO VESUVIUS J In answer to the question as ns to i whether there Is any nn connection be he between het tween t een the earthquake of or yesterday and emit J time the recent eruption of Vesuvius I 1 urn ant of or orthe i the tire opinion that no direct connection of or orthis 1 i this nature exists That Is to say nay I 1 do donot donot doi i iUt not Hot recognize any direct relation be between between tween tho tue actual eruption In Italy Hilly and Mt this particular i disturbance In IU Califor California i inn nia However the tact fact IB is generally Ii recognized that tim the Igneous commonly called volcanic forces Corces have been of 1 1 R bite lato unusually unu active within the tIre broad biond equatorial belt hell In which lie He the tho sol vol 01 ii 1 of recent activity this zone Igneous disturbances have lae been common since the disastrous outburst tl at itt Martinique while earthquakes 1 are ore not nol to be lie confused with volcanic Ii eruptions there Is la u a 1 relation between h v the two the tho earthquake being nt at least leasta II a LI secondary manifestation of or Igneous 4 agency But Hut this subject cannot be he fairly treated except lit at greater r length |