Quake

SCIENCE

There is only one thing more startling than a bolt from the blue, and that is a shock from the earth--to have the earth heave and quiver. An earth shock, of quite respectable intensity, came thus suddenly to startle the northeastern U. S. It was not quite 9:30 in the evening (Eastern Time) when a series of quivers began. They were felt all through New England and New York, ebbing away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault or crack in the rock strata, either the Logan's Fault coming down from Canada, via Lake Champlain and the northern Hudson Valley, or the Fundian Fault which runs southwest off the Maine coast, from the Bay of Fundy, is believed to have been responsible. The records on seismographs seem not to have been very clear and the exact point of the disturbance was not easily determined. No damage directly traceable to the earthquake was reported. A rattling of windows, a swinging of lamps, here and there a cracked wall, in some places a frightened group of citizens were the chief accomplishments of the shock.