Shifting of Earth's Crust Under Bay of Fundy Comes as Illustration of Professor Daly's Lowell Lecture

A strange coincidence occurred here yesterday when this vicinity was the scone of an earthquake 36 hours after Dr. R. A. Daly of the Geology Department delivered a lecture at Lowell Institute on earthquakes and the effect a quake would have in Boston. Dr. Daly stated in his speech that owing to the solid formation of the earth here that a shock would cause little destruction.

The quake was felt throughout southern New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts, but several broken dishes in Malden proved to be the only loss of property. Several students in the University reported that they were rudely awakened by the rocking of the earth. The damage, however, to property in Cambridge and the vicinity of Boston, was absolutely negligible.

According to Professor K. F. Mather of the Geology Department, the University seismograph showed that the shock occurred at 8.07 o'clock yesterday and lasted for 45 seconds. He believes that yesterday's quake was due to a shifting, either vertically or horizontally, of the great Fundian fault in the earth's crust which is submerged under the Bay of Fundy. He bases his opinions on the fact that the two waves of the shock came in quick succession. A quake always divides into two waves which separate as the earthquake travels. Since the two shocks were simultaneous, the origin would seem to have been only 200 or 300 miles away. Because the waves came from the northeast it is probable that the origin was in the region of the Bay of Fundy.

Professor Mather pointed out that a shock of the kind that occurred here is a monthly happening in California and is considered inconsequential.