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Show DESTRUCTIVE TREMBLOR TERMED HAPPY EVENT SANTIAGO. Aug 21 (Correspond-I (Correspond-I once ) The seismic disturbance which' isited central Chile and a part of! western Argentina in the latter part! of last month the mos.t violent since j the 190C earthquake (Then Valparaiso was partly destroyed with preat loss! of life was a "happy event" from a scientific point of view, accordlnK to Count Montessus dfi Ballore. director of Chilean Sclsmologlcal observatory, located near here. Explaining this, he says: J "For the last eighteen months there; has been complete seismic tranquil-1 1 Ity and we know that an undisturbed condition prepares disasters In coun-tries coun-tries subject to such phenomena. The' frequent rumblings correspond to what may bec.alled 'small coin earthquakes When no quakes arc : produced for a long period the effort i , Is accumulated until it breaks out vio- I lently as the forces succeed in crush-; ing the elastic resistance of the terrestrial terres-trial strata." The count says If the "quiet condi- ; ; tion" had continued much longer, one lor two years the danger would have been far preater, but now "according to all .irobabillty, we will return to a 1 state of normal selsmfcal activity In-! stead of a menacing calm " Faint L shocks are fell here frequently There ; was no loss of life and the material, damage In Santiago and Valparaiso 1 was confined largely to cracked walls ( and skylights, destruction of plas-- 1 ware in some of the stores ami cr.T-k- 1 Ing of a glass dome on the palace of! fine arts In Santiago. |