Show earthquakes ARTH QUAKES of A H MOVEMENT OF THE EARTH TH I 1 MOST pronounced quakes compare in violence with the valparaiso and kingston disturbances 1 i 0 6 a ID 0 earthquake RECORD a 0 0 a 0 0 6 albany N Y april 15 16 the 0 10 0 strongest and longest earth 0 0 quake shock recorded upon the a 0 0 seismograph at the s state tate muse Q ID 0 urn um here since the instrument 0 0 was installed began at a a 0 m today and continued for cl 0 more than two hours the reo a 0 ord la Is much more pronounced ya y 0 than that made by the san 0 C 0 francisco earthquake of last 0 0 year the maximum vibration a 0 was so severe as to swing the 0 0 10 pendulum clear off the record 0 0 cylinder 0 0 assistant state geologist da 0 0 vid H newlands said 0 0 the me disturbance must have C 0 0 been very severe indeed longer 0 0 and more moro severe than any TO 0 0 corded since our instruments mat 0 0 were installed moro more than a io 0 0 year ago it appears to have 0 0 been some miles away to 0 0 the southwest or southeast 0 0 0 0 01 washington april 15 according to the weather bureau a distant earthquake of groat great intensity was recorded at this morning aning the greatest movement of the earth at washington waa was recorded dej in an east andi and west direction and lasted from to 1 41 while the principle portion of ot the north south movement lasted only until 1 33 a m the total duration of 0 the earthquake was over two houra hours these records seem to indicate an axx unusually violent earthquake at a distance comparable in intensity with those which recently occurred at valparaiso and kingston albany april 16 15 in an official statement stat Ament glyen given out at the state geologists office today it its Is deol arod A that there Is no doubt that th atthe the prea belongs to the world I 1 shaking variety and that it will be found to have been felt at the setimo logical stations in la this country aa as well as europe and perhaps in other parts of the world the first indication of the disturbance waa was received at 1 14 12 1 2 this morning at 1 28 a athe m the wavea waves developed tev eloped rapidly to extraordinary size reaching an amplitude of over six inches as traced by the pendulum and causing the recording arms to awing swing entirely off the cylinders on I 1 both the north south and the east cast west machines the large waves lasted ten minutes and the whole disturbance tur bance anoe till about 3 a m |