Show QUAKE BARES BARES' MISTAKES IN N i CONSTRUCTION I I Engineers Find Cases of I Rotten Concrete In I II Santa Barbara I WEAK ANCHORAGES Si Reason Given For Great Destruction On State I Street LOS IOS ANGELES July 9 i. A OP I The flie concentration of oC destruction I on State street the tho main thorough thorough- thoroughfare fare f ue of ot Santa Barbara visited by hy byun hyan byan II an un earthquake a week ago form form- id 1 t 1 one of oC the thc main topics of oC dis dis- discussion discussion at a meeting here last I i night III ht of ot 16 southern California en engineers en- en enI engineer and geologists s after their I preliminary J observations ions In the th stricken area An observation of ot the geological pointed out by byl A. A M M. Strong 11 ronI an engineer which found avor or with H. H O. O 0 Woods research Assistant of o the thc Carnegie lion Mon at Washington ash Ins Indicated Indica led that I Ithe I the main artery of oC tl e quake shat shat- shattered shat-I shat shattered tred city lies above alove a submerged cany on which In prehistoric days I extended l from Crom the Santa Barbara mission to the tho sea I CAUSE CUSE OP OJ WRECKAGE Ge I The submerged canyon canon birong trong I said aid having in time become cov- cov covI I led cued with a lighter soil flail deposit depositS i formed the tho territory upon which State Sate street stands and since it vas Va as less firm than hap the surround surround- surrounding I ing hug land produced an excellent ond letor for Cor the temblors which j I reduced educed the business district to in ruins Ins While hilI no actual evidence of o the tho Santa earthquakes earthquake's action In the unez mountains back of Santa I Barbara was WM as offered at this mee unee lug hug the scientific le observers were I t Inclined to believe until further investigation at least that the I originated In that region From the t temporarily I O lb accepted rl I Ithe point of t origin r g In the mountains I the observers believed the quakes quake's force orce was transmitted through Santa Barbara r by the t submerged I ath g it chasm to the tho three C chatted a faults along the ocean front where dam- dam damage age was also aiso wrought The Tho 16 1 engineers ana geologists J h d t reports to Wood last I InIght night and will later offer oHel the re 1 rePorts ports In writing from Crom the careful scrutiny of the research commit commit- re-I re tee lec We e have ha added much to our OUI will 1 take data dala Wood said sahl but hut It observation to definitely I place the thc origin of oC the Santa lIar Bar Barbara ar- ar bara llara ara tart It is evident e from fromI the hI I reports that the major vibrations lions of ot the disturbance were to the generally from Crom the northeast southwest aut h west BUILDING B G ERRORS We e e must make a detailed ed study of o the mountains and the charted faults aults before we uve can definitely be become ic- ic the temblor come com I acquainted with or predict further disturbances In the report of the members rs of the committee who Inspected the tho Ih I buildings the tho keynote was the inefficiency of materials lK wed d in the th construction tc t l com corn combat comi i hat bat the earths earth's The engineers report Instances of o what they the termed rotten concrete used u ed In the building and weak an an- anchorages of the floors and walls to the Joists |