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Show The Earthquake Tuesday Night Bear River Valley Receives Re-ceives Three Distinct Dis-tinct Shocks Within 45 Minutes and Others Folio wed During night. While Brigham and Ogdonj woi'o tho center of the disturbances, disturb-ances, Garland and tho Bear River Valley received its share of tho vigorous tremblings that swept over tho inte-rmountain country from northeast to I southwest Tuesday night. The first shock, at 7:40 p.m., was very distinct and was followed by a tremor 15 minutes later m At 8:22 p m. tho most vigorous H and lasting .invrings were folt H and excitement p r o v a 1 e d H throughout tho wholo country. H During tho night throe slight B shocks were folt by a great H many of our citizens and ros- H idonts of tho valley. H No damage is reported to have B- been done by the seismic waves H that visited this section, but B many people wore badly fright- B ened and failed to got thoir full H quoto of sleep that night. B ' A number of tremors have flj been folt since Tuesday night. We clip tho following from the Herald-Republican which may bo of interest to our readers: From as far north as Preston, Ida., to a point south of Salt Lake tho tromors'or alarming jarrings of the earth wore folt in varying degress of strength, Brigham City and Ogdon, to tho north, registering tho strongest waves, indicating tho center of the disturbance. Tho seismograph at tho University Un-iversity of Utali registered tho strongest local disturbance in many years. Professor Fred J. Pack said that tho great fault plane, or rock ledges, extending along tho western slope of tho Wasatch mountains, has settled slightly. The ledge, which extends over 100 miles, is a formation distinctly dis-tinctly conducive to earth disturbances. dis-turbances. Inasmuch as earthquakes earth-quakes are caused either by volcanic disturbances or movement move-ment of fault planes, Professor Pack is convinced that yesterday's yester-day's quako is to bo attributed to the latter cause. Professor Pack further said that tho tromors might not bo but fororuners of a groat disturbance. dis-turbance. He quoted Professor Gilbert of tho government survey, sur-vey, who has repeatedly prophesied pro-phesied tho destruction of Salt Lake by earthquake. These surmises aro based on tho fact that tho city and valley aro directly over peculiar strata formations, so situated as to be termed fault planes, may at any moment settle further down, creating earthquakes in tho process. d- 4 f |