Show Earthquake Shocks Sway Beneath Salt Lake Late fer fe Two Minutes Sunday Morning Experiences Experience Most Moat City I in Its History Not Much Damage Done Dene Severe but Plenty of Excitement While it Lasted Prof Profi I IJ J i Fred Pack Tells the Causes of the Disturbance FAULt PLANES lLANES RESPONSIBLE FOR OR QUAKE Time I TH TU nm S 10 rd ES nm M er c uns m is nm am 10 J s sho k w wS ro fall In la Salt it Lake Zake morn Tre w Sf done Jono rem the e breaking of ot o some om II In M Nil N Pr M CM B Id the ef In hO IH ee n bu tn iw block Salt SIt USe JAk uw ine III center of ft f th tM thi which wa ws W felt throughout the val ij aI aIM I I h MAM Of or M bY TIM Ill I attributed to th Ui tha or a nu hugo hUKe block blok Ions along k hair 1 of th the Va teh range rang the K g Talmage In an n Interview printed In tn II the Deseret Deret News New at ata nr III Jsmes Jam J gf ol UK tM n earthquake foretold Jut Just i such uch a trembler tIm tilt a at time In the future 8 of which may happen n L and tottering a aw ai Ir If shaken baken In grip P ot of an a an I tilt III IB tIn In toree ore and a n 1 It II a panic panle of ot apprehensive I Lake for two minutes yester yeater I Ir fr rocked about in the theat waa we jy r earthquake tt at 01 the most noet severe cevero I LU t 1 Is distinct shocks felt and nd n e wre j the seismograph nt It the thet by sd Neof 18 S SIE of t Utah the tha first at duration of oC 2 with a i IE the second rond cond at am nm laM la lag O ana nO the third at ut 1126 IW SO 20 seconds Salt Lake waa was the center of ot die dl and id few nearby towns town re parted the th shocks hock Although the first shock came rome suddenness and was of or with ith startling and rock to 10 sway eway nt severity evenLy and hou houe es H In all alt portions of or ofIK orthe tunings t J IK thi rity elty practically little damage re ren i e was no serious loss loe lo SOd and n J there and there In different Here litre CUen of the he city plastered walls mirrors were broken brokenIK chimneys chimney top topped IK III 54 In Ia lIed ped down In the downtown buildings building all and antI M JIO damage was WM wa reported r at thi tb he worst wont Ot effect effen of ot the quake was wae upon awakened from oL oi those thole tile the serve 1 P a their sleep J p In n startling tart ling fear at the tha trige and uncanny sensa lenla sensation lion tion of ot the rocking HOOT floor heightened la ta Hi It ti f t by the Jangling of ot dishes r ud tel rf the kItchen ware art At AI the hotels hotel the excitement reached Ju itil height when the guests scurried through the th hall hallIB ays In a panic of I and md wondering whit whet had hap rfd reaM In several eral instances Instance the fire tire maps vas vu retorted resorted to but alter after the had subsided the fears fear of the fUel were soon oon allayed hy by h the clerks The Tee seated and third tremor were ere V as aa compared with the lint frit and w were r re not felt hy by h many man manTo To the clipping nf or a huge crucIal crusta W ck k along the th base bue of or the thA Wasatch lU atch rut fUr a fault plane plan Is la attributed the tho disturbance dJ of or yesterday ye and andi anda i a recurrence of ot which may maT b two ho expected In Is th the future according to scientists AT UNIVERSITY to Prof Prot J 3 Fred Fr d Pack the was 88 entirely local with with the Ihl almost directly dl tI under the grounds In the three ewka ho k cod nd waves naves ael ran from northwest tn to southeast i t Th interior disturbance must mut have ha VI ts i u Q decidedly Intent Dr lack Pack said Is the th needle of or the seismograph aft or r driven fully funy three Inches Inch off oct Its Ite lent did not swing awing back like a J but bul was wan held to one on side Ride ron IrOm in It starting point f lt t Lake Is I the center of an earth oarth iu k zone zon and we may ma expect rc sc di i from time to time rh dl Runday RuMay morning may mar mo lre tram traced to 10 the th moving morIn of or Jt st II full planes anu or rock rO k ledges ex cx x line along the western slope sl p of the Match range ran gp The ledger ledge v which h ex cx exi x i o ncr r miles mil Is a ft formation i 1 he l to disturbances N s er r in th Ih of the city Cr r St at t least ft sm Rin seismograph was wast a t i l has h been such auh a dl l t totty ft Hv l 1 shok howk k though such shocks hocka half hi ho n wh fM un As A t i SAN T f h 11 ii t T mentions o volcanic a I ti t 1 I I m nI I mui nitis n ll I ar r gen i a lit r I for t f oo ubA th 51 latt was van a 1 KH I w ill ai far fw the tho th ho of or f Sunday und forenoon so c n was for forn to ton I lb n Fm so Thin ef n f Ih h 0 t hN h bee the tue h er 0 r lit 1 h 1 sort nu Inn of the earth arth 0 h 11 Ian I la is I located In in h t it p i i or tho tim worst onit stages t ge geI I i u 11 1 78 T adjustment Mineral uh e iK asp AlCo The roast coast line hue 1111 In is Inn n n Jl 01 III fc crucIal 4 i bO c n this Ihl section will un unI I in t the Ih future though of am amt sn hl r loutS m mass readjust I of I h he t wo VO Ions h b h I 1 bo t I I IM 1 I d dIsturbances ll I hk hak t ti 10 a combination Ih I C 1 I Ih Pi i rr Id of ot a ar ar I r i Co in nl nd wt of d H to In hAY have loen th Ih ff sc r riI Il iI ki hi h nt of the theM th lie M ii I rI ing the Ih two Iw which hl h hO O H hI j u b ly hy tile the IheI 1 I 1 ru IU Aetna Aln and nl tue III h 11 i rs r lo 10 n tho th 0 tie 1 It t 1 INton In several year t l h t en the result nf tit f fI I t 1 K Th The nH i n r t h Wod if 1 hv hy a com cam ill c u The Tue Ther Ih lesser h r WoOlly 11 1 by a r F solely through nl i tte Th hv h Tr r I Lk k R lIv was wall f d 10 Z Ir I hut but b by O eros m I hid h ht the th We Ir i 1 I 5 the eastward to tor toMA n MA MAt sir AM AMr SLIPS r n nc J 0 St t thc i n nl 0 nn time me director I survey urvey sure hits hns hll that the great throw at atthe t the th western fees of ot th the Ule moun mean mountains talus aggregated ted feet ThIS Th dis displacement dl placement It will be bt remembered la is lanot not the result of ot a single slip but In all nil probability tho the of ot meny many many smaller once Anti And again train acted with th tho deformation and faulting m so tO that now many man of or the ranK rang mountains have lot lost the th true external evidence of t their block nature natu The city of or Salt SaiL Lake Is 1 Imme immo Immediately west wet of this great greut plane Iane and directly upon one of or the down thrown blocks which la ts now covered by b allu ilum vium washed from the surrounding hills hula The old escarpment or face left through faulting In many places place still stands stando out precipitously such HB HS asfor for tor Instance directly east t ut nf of Provo and east of Willard It Ity wy oele le Ie at othor places this great fault tault marp has hots bran been much eroded and occasionally oC almost tract effaced Movement along this feltt fracture has liaa ha continued up to the pre lire ent SLIPS of recent alipIa IIII pI K along aIng till tills old fracture may ma be beat Men eerie Menat at almost almot every point from on the th north to Nephi on the th south lOuth In point of ot Intensity the th disturbances caused aud by b the slipping of the great Wn Wa Waatch catch satch block late hOLB likely no parallel paral with in the history of the human occupancy o of ot America The Tue greatest throw shown hown In the thA San n Francisco amounted In no case 1180 to more than two fret feet a fact which when compared to the local fault tault escarpment may Inay give some clue as aa to 10 the tho Intensity of ot the thA wave net t up by the tho latter tatter From the tho standpoint of years ear It Is 1 scarcely R I pos possible possible 1 sible to arrive arrhe at the th date of this re sc recent cent nt occurrence but It can CiUI b be 00 said alII and that most t emphatically that It was very wry recent compared with other Im len Important I geological of ot this and from the standpoint of ot the geologist w we are not lint prepared to state that this slipping Is la entirely a thing of th the put peat Thero Ther Ix La no occasion for Cor alarm how h however ever Ivr In the disturbance of t Sunday Runday It Is I probable that the tha slipping of the block wan wait al not more mor than an anInch anInch anInch Inch or so 0 fo So long Jon Ion as na the readjust readjustment ment of ot the tha block goes on we ne nearo ore aro bound to have hae shock shoel hoc I oo f i I A 1 I Iz II It I z I t I I X r rI I M M n V r EARTHQUAKES EARTHQUAKE S STORY AS TOLD BY ITSELF ON THE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY SITY OF UTAH SEISMOGRAPH h x |