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Show I SCIENCE CANT I EXPLAIN QUAKES Washington. Oct. 9 Frequent MOM SgJthqUekes In North and Soulh Vm- mgU StlC and Europe during the lust few WgK months havs pUSSled government sci entists They regard the disturbance as a geological anomaly tor they soy that the greatest seismic disturbance JfJ Is known definitely to be In Kebru- Lssssl a7' ;Niurih i,nd Apr"- ThPlr opinion IH coincides with that of Father Ton- dorf director of the Georgetown unl-BjS unl-BjS verslty seismic observatory. The government scientists have no! , particular scientific reason to suggest1 LsbssI 2?L ,hr fr,,Ju"ricy of the recent sarth dlsturbanc s Th. j ere making no spe-l frw- or th. ,,a, tiiM..aks and1 B) geology la too' young a science and too little Is known of 11 for anyone t0 uttempt an expla-nation expla-nation of the cause of the anomaly Geologists recognize that the earth's surface is In a state of continual un-, mM JOSt, and they explain that whenever the accumulated force passes the1 ssssf "breaking point" earthquakes follow I Ihe disturbances which recently have I occurred in three continents are ro-gardod ro-gardod by scientists as movements of1 the earth's crust and yet thev sav that some of the shocks mnv have extended extend-ed to a depth of :'in;i miles Fault lines or weak places lu the earth arc well known to the geologists according to G f. Merrill, curator of tho national museum, who explains that because of this knowledge a general gen-eral prediction regarding the area of u disturbance can be made by the scientists sci-entists Hut. he adds, - no sail., man" WOUld attempt to say exactly where or when, for a fault may extend for sev-trul sev-trul hundred miles. |