Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-25 | Page 7 | Heavy Earth Schocks Coming

HEAVY EARTH SH0CKSC01NG Tokio, Just Rocked By One Earthquake, Told to Expect Ex-pect More TOKIO. June 24. (Correspondence of the Associated Press) The residents resi-dents of Toklo and vicinity who experienced ex-perienced the earthquake, of April 26, when their houses rocked like ships In a heavy sea and movable articles fell from tables and sideboards, have hardly been reassured by the statement state-ment of Dr. Fusaklchi Omorl, famous seismologist and professor of the Imperial Im-perial university, that future shocks will at their greatest bo about double the force of the last quake. Tho late ono was conwldered enough. WALL TI'.MBIjEb DOWN A wall around tho Imperial palace, which had withstood shocks for 800 years fell Into the surrounding moat modern granite walls were damaged and a now reinforced concrete building, build-ing, one of several under construction by American firms, and which are be-i be-i llevod to be earthquake proof was allghtly cranked. However, Dr Omori says these buildings being on more fraiglo ground than other Toklo buildings build-ings have proved their ability to with-! hold any shock that might In future j visit the city, although the last quake j was only one-sixth the intensity of the, shock of 185R when 50.000 houses were ucsiroyea ana 0, Y UU deatus resulted. re-sulted. Dr Omorl's predictions are based on the known scientific fact that earthquakes aro the phenomena accompanying ac-companying the removal of weak cleavages thus binding the strata and preventing tho occurrence of severer shocks. FOUR SHOCKS DAILY There aro an average of 14C0 earthquakes earth-quakes yearly or about four dally folt In Japan, not Including minor ones which are recorded only on the most delicate, instruments and in 1500 years thoro have been 224 more or less disastrous dis-astrous ones. Most of these originated originat-ed under the Pacific. During the last 20 jears, said Dr Ornori, the origin of tho earthquakes folt in Tokio ha.s .been always about 15 or 20 rl distant ! f rorn the city, there belnz no case In I n Qicb Toklo or its vlclnitj vas the or-lgln. or-lgln. "It follows that these qunke had nothing to do with Tokio as a cen-jter," cen-jter," adds the professor, "but it must bo feared that, as those quakes decrease de-crease in number in the future, Toklo will be in its turn the renter of vibration vi-bration As a rule, however, points several ri distant from the center of vibration feel the quake more severely j than, the point of origin. For this ' reason. Toklo. Yokohama and Chlba 1 built largely on roclalmed lund, vi-brate vi-brate more than tho scene of the orlg- , in."