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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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disturbances in one part of the world and earth-quakes in another, the evidence is somewhatconflicting. Yet it is a notable fact that theearthquake in the Mississippi \alley, in 1811 —12, ceased when the volcano of St. Vincent, inthe West Indies, broke out, and there is per-haps a suggestive coincidence between the erup-tion of \esuvius and the earthquake in SanFrancisco. The tidal disturbances that frequently accom-pany earthquakes may be due to distinct seismicoutbreaks on the floor of the ocean, but oftenare simply the reaction against vibrations re-ceived from the shore. This rebounding energyfrequently brings to the shore a tidal wave halfa hundred feet high, which waslu^s over thecoast and adds to the damage of the shock.Such a catastrophe was popularly fearecl in con-nection with San Francisco, but with little rea-son, as the Golden Gate and the lioights ofGolden (jiate Park would have diminished orrepelled a large-sized tibial ■Nvg.ve. WHAT HAPPENED TO STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
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Hliutograpli by C. C. Pierce & Co., Los Angeles. THE MEMORIAL AUCH AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE. PALO ALTO, the seat of Stanford Univer-sity, about thirty miles south of San Fran-cisco, is only five miles from the famous PortoLi fault. It is to frictions along the line ofthis old fault that President Jordan, of Stan-ford, ascribes the earthquake shock of April 18,from which Palo Alto and the university suf-fered far more seriously than did the great cityon the bay to the northward. Several of the uni-versity buildings were completely wrecked. Thelibrary building, in course of construction, lostits stone and brick walls from the swaying ofthe great dome and its steel supports, which re-mained themselves unharmed. The memorialarch, whicli was of brick reenforced with steeland faced with stone, was split almost to the base.Tlic spire of the memorial church fell, togetherwith the front of the building, carrying thegreat Mosaic, The Sermon on the Mount. Thenew gymnasium, of brick faced with st

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