Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1927, Page 24

| QUAKEIS TRACED TO1Z3 DISASTER Monday’s Shocks in Japan Held Reoccurrence of Former Tremors. That Monday’s earthquake which rocked central Japan, taking a toll of thousands of lives, was & recurrence of the great catastrophe that laid Tokio low on September 1, 1923, was the opinion expressed here today by Rev. Francis A. Tondorf, S. J., inter- nationally known seismologist and di- rector of the Georgetown University Seismic Observatory. Japan may suffer even a greater calamity in a few years, Director Ton- dorf warned, if the earth movements that spread destruction this week have not adjusted themselves. Monday's quake was of much greater intensity than the shocks of three years ago, he estimated, and supports the official view held then that the adjustment in the earlier quake was not complete. ‘Whether a third phase of the Tokio quake is to follow in the wake of the =resent disaster, he pointed out, can- not be determined by seismologists until a thorough study has been made of these tremors, After-shocks can be expected for quite a while, he declared, but these will be of only a slight nature. Forty-eighth Severe Quake. Monday's quake, Director Tondorf said, figures as the forty-eighth in the history of severe seismic occurrences in Japan, As in 1923, the recent tremors were “tectonic,” or caused by the slipping of the rock strata at great depths, due to faulting or tensile stresses. A study of the 1923 disaster proved that approximately 90 per cent of the loss of life and property was mnot caused by the earthquake itself, he pointed out, but by the resulting fire. The quake of 1923, he claimed, was slight in comparison with Monday's shocks, and only the fact that these occurred distant from centers of pop- ulation prevented the disaster from as- suming greater proportions. “The geological environment of Ja- pan offers the least immunity against earthquakes of all the continental areas of the world,” said Director Ton- dorf, “with the possible exception of the Kermadec and Tonga, sometimes known as the Friendly Islands, situ- ated north of New Zealand, in the southern Pacific. Adjustment Incomplete. “Japan geographically drops off rather abruptly into the Tuscarora deep, with a maximum depth of 28,000 feet. It is obvious that this violent departure from crustal level must of necessity be held responsible for the gigantic stresses. Again, the relative structures of the crust beneath the troughs and of the abutting mountain chains have been found to be such as to cause the troughs to be elevated and the mountain ranges to sink. Hence a persistent tendency to wer- tical shearing. ~insthe quake of Monday we have a relief of these strains. It is interest- ing to note that this quake, Sllowing 80 closely in the wake of the catas- trophe of September 1, 1923, indicates that the adjustment in the first quake was not complete. This stands con- firmed in the official report of Dr. Imamura, now the director of the imperial seismological investigations committee of Japan, who stated that the quake of 1923 was not severe, though the casualties were more than 100,000 and the property loss in excess of $4,000,000.” Reports that Japan experiences an average of 1,400 earthquakes a year, or about four a day, were ridiculed by Director Tondorf, who declared that the average is not more tiNn 413 yearly, of which only 9 per cent might be characterized as heavy quakes. These figures, he said, are advanced by Dr. Sieberg of Jena, perhaps the greatest known seismologist in the world, who recently made a careful recalculation of tremors the world over. One Tremor Every Hour. Dr. Sieberg has found justification for placing the estimated number for the world at one quake for every hour in the day. This, however, Director Tondorf points out, proves no monop- oly on quakes, the explanation being that more are registered at the pres- ent time because of better observa- tory equipment. s Yorecasting of earthquake happen- ings would prove an inestimable boon ' to mankind, he declared, and is not entirely beyond the realm of future researches which may discover a Address your attention to the new Dresses for Spring You are going to have many delights this season— for fashion has so many ]:leniw.nsl phases—of varying elaborateness—that your fancy wi sion in choice. Beautiful colorings; effective embellishments give added charm to the graceful lines—creating original con- ceptions. For street, sports and afternoon wear. Beginning @ accomplished, he declared, it “would require the faith to move mountaine to believe that even a rational guess could be made at the time, year or day, when these forces ‘would so pile up on crustal deformities :o bring them to the point of frac- The delicate mneedles of the sels- mographs at Georgetown University, which were the first to record the fa- world-wide range. er Tondort e: timates that not more than 9,000 earth shooks are recorded throughout the world annually, and of these only about 5,000 may be sensibly felt. The for the whole United than one-half of 1 per cent are “gevere,” , Fire Hazard Neglect. Failure of the Japanese to protect themselves against the fire hazards that follow every earthquake, Father Tondorf declared, has resulted in great unnecessary destruction by Monday’'s quake. 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