Earthquakes and Their Significance

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 13, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 31.

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Earthquakes and Their Significance

The Yakutat Bay earthquake, of Alaska, which occurred September 3, 1899, and which was followed during the next three weeks by many less violent shocks, has been set forth in a United States government document recently as one of the ten greatest earthquakes in history. The greatly increased frequency of earthquakes, together with the storms that are spreading destruction in so many localities, is strikingly significant. It will not do to pass them by without due consideration, for they mean something.