Science: Quake Coming

Dean Kirtley F. Mather of the Harvard Observatory has been feeling the geologic pulse of New England carefully ever since the earthquake series which she began to experience in September, 1924. He warned her in advance of the shocks felt last month in the Merrimac Valley (TIME, Oct. 19), and last week he told her that worse upheavals are coming, upheavals as violent as those that visited New England in 1775 and about the same calibre as the Santa Barbara shocks last summer. He predicted that the property damage to New England...

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