| Show r rACK fACK TELLS OE pF F EARTHQUAKE INI IN I SEVIER t of Utah Professor r P Predicts s Earth rt T Temblors l rs in in r ei re Ar Over B l' l 4 ER R. R FRED J. J J. J PACK head of oC the tIle theLI LI DR department of ot geology of ot the thee e diversity of Utah who returned om om m Sevier county Sunday night here here he be had gone to make mak a fie fic study o of the conditions conditions' ns gives the p.- p. Howing account ct or of th the effects of l L e earthquake dIs disturbances ur an es fl t I found the p people ople dis- dis because o of their experiences 1 e fe 0 said Up to the time o of my ar ar- val lyal they had been affected by two the morn morn- vere vere disturbances one on ig g of or SepU ep 2 29 and tho the oth ro the ening of the same da day They had as many many as 20 aso so been affected by 5 30 minor disturbances Up to that me me three or four houses had been uninhabitable scores of ot buses had bad been partially wrecked fth falling plaster on te on the he floor of I L early every room of every house 1 Like a thunderbolt from a clear t ky y and d with th the rapidity y of the he fir fir- ig g of a cannon at exactly 8 32 a. a m. m r a very vert Intense shock struck e town It was ts of ot very short d dura- dura raon ra- ra on but unusually severe severe severe- It Iti was was ore like a shock due to a giant ex- ex slon Oslon than the ordinary rumbling Its effect upon the town as one Q of causing as much dust as 3 ordinary windstorm In lIt certain seer sec ons It was s dense that one could ie e only a few rods away The trees look ook as it if struck by a g giant mt blow ue e walls of even the he more jal a al buildings swayed back and forth Corth i such suck a manner as to t topple or Otherwise berwise erwi e d destroy stroy practically every in lii the city Most 1 of t these fell onto the roofs and nd then the ground but some few oC r f them hick broke off und under r the the roof root were d through the ceiling and andI I to ito the rooms Fortunately no 1 one oneas as seriously hurt S 'S The iThe actual damage done In this strict was probably greater than at of the other two shocks hocks com com- ned This condition however wever was lade ade possible O only ly b the U e fact that e C former an s loosened ie lie e material in such a manner as to toj j readily thrown idov down It is not likely that the first Oral disturbance even actually ly harder than this e. e i. i i iThe IThe The buildings which suffered r jre re those constructed ted of angular of oC stone next nevera were the brick d d adobe houses of oC light construe construe- I in n then the substantial al brick build- build I b s an and ana lastly the frame houses Durro Dur- Dur ro my stay tay there about a dozen nor disturbances were experienced r. r Pack explained that the Great vier Fault the largest fault In the own own world stretches from Kanab Fountain Green in Sanpete count county at Panguitch being lost In InGold Ine ine e Gold mountain region and reap- reap jaring at Redmond in Sevier county i the tho heart of ot the Sevier valley alley |
