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Show EARTHQUAKE IN OQDEN AND ELSEWHERE. ; People IhinK on the bench, who I were up late last night, report having I Olf the earthquake shock which i - J brated the base of the Wasatch range it from northern Utah to a point south I of Salt Lake City, These BCismic disturbances are to be expected at intervals, as the west slope of the Wasatch mountains fornib H an earthquake zone H Directly east of Ogden in a cliff ! marking the entrance to Taylor can yon. Geologists say that the escarpment escarp-ment Is the exposed part or a fault 1 which has been formed within a re- j cent geological period and that fur- ther faulting may be experienced Earthquakes are caused ny these surface movements of the earlh and their severity is in proportion to the extent of tbe surface action. Were the ground at the mouth of Taylor ; canyon to suddenly sink a few lnrhe-. the jar might wreck many buildings I and the vibrations be felt at a great j distance I But no one need worry over these I possibilities, a6 borrowing trouble is I a senseless mind condition Nature I moves by a very slow process, and I it may be a century or two before the 1 shifting of the rock formatiou at the J base of our majestic mountains is 4 such as to bring about a disturbance 5 of a magnitude to do Ogden any 3 harm By that time all of the present Hi day inhabitants of this city will be . -M resting in mother earlh, wholly un- concerned whether a cliff or a alar falls. |