Show EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN With Yokohama burning burnine aCter aft tan an earthquake we ye are reminded of the disaster In la 1906 which destroy destroy- destroyed destroyed ed the greater part of o San Fral Fran Francisco cisco Japanese clUes cities are not aa u soUd- soUd soUi solid solid-lly ily built as u la America The resl- resl res resl dentist district Is of flimsy cw con construction and an In earthquake though causing tires fires Ire would bring about h no noI I such loss of life as occurred In t Inthe I Ithe the Charleston quake of man many manyI years ago or the tho on th the Pacific coast archipelago has hu a The Japanese history of seismic disturbances disturbance dating back to earliest history The Th islands have bavo been pushed up from frog of land land- making land the sea and the process making Is In progress causing Ue tre- tre mora that Indicate the of the structures A disaster of wide it is isto isto to be expected although to be rock rock- with in geologic slowness as nature m in nearly all aU Its changes works work as though time Is not es- es essential es essential Great Grest earthquake disasters have bare I been near the sea Bea coast and are I associated with the water of the ocean finding its way through fis- fis fissures fis fissures sores of the ocean floor to the In Internal heat and there forming tre tremendously powerful pockets of steam which seeking an outlet follo the lines of least resIstance and disturb the nearby earth crust causIng faulting accompanied by eal earth th vibrations I INow Now and then there Is an ex- ex exception ex exception to this rule Three leant ean ago an earthquake occurred In the northwest territory of China and the transformations were so BO great that the typography of the country as u as changed Entire mountains slid Into the valley and stretches of bottom land were so broken up that horses could not travel over the churned surface The loss of Illo could only be estimated as bole villages bad had disappeared |