DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKE
EXPECTED THIS YEAR
SCIENTISTS’ PREDICTION
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, September 14. Tho ‘ Westminster Gazette ’ says that scientists, including Sir Richard Gregory, aro anticipating a disastrous earthquake within tho year somewhere along the fault lino, which, since tho San Francisco catastrophe in 1906, has stretched across the Atlantic to midEuropo and Turkestan, thence to Japan. This is believed to bo duo to the earth cracking. Sir Richard Gregory says that formerly many shocks have been preludes to a violent ’quake. Tho increase in the number and frequency of shocks in the past two years, particularly in 1927, causes tho expectation of a disaster.— Sydney 1 Sun ’ Cable. [A cablegram from Rome on January 6 stated that Professor Bcndandi, tho noted seismologist, prophesied that the present year would be noted for great earth paroxysms which would scatter death and destruction in the most distant parts of tho world. Japan, Southern Europe. Western Mexico, California, and Polynesia would all suffer.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19663, 16 September 1927, Page 5
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159DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKE Evening Star, Issue 19663, 16 September 1927, Page 5
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