New England Will Feel Slight Quake, Predicts Mather

"Chances that a major earthquake will came during 1948 are greater than they have been during the past 15 years," prophesies Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology and curator of the Geological Museum.

Although the recent tremors in Maine from which this conclusion was drawn were slight, they created sufficient disturbance to be picked up by the University seismograph in Harvard, Massachusetts.

New England earthquakes seem to follow a usual patern, elucidated Professor Mather, who commanded public attention in 1925 by accurately predicting the advent of a similar geological rift.

The cycle begins with several tremors in the Maine-New Hampshire area, terminating in a major earthquake at an undetermined location somewhere in the vicinity of the tremors.

Chief damage caused by small eastern earthquakes, aside from a little falling plaster, is the disalignment of precision instruments.