EARTHQUAKE LESSONS
SUGGESTIONS FOR INDIA
(British Official Wireless.) (Received June 7, 11.55 a.m.)
RUGBY, June 6,
The Under-Secretary of State for India, Mr. R. A. Butler, promised in the House of Commons today to communicate to the Government of India two suggestions put forward by Mr. Charlton in Parliamentary questions.
One suggestion was that the Seismological Association at Oxford and the Geological Society of London should inquire further into the fact that earthquake shocks in regions known to be subject to them are generally preceded'by minor tremors which are detectable on suitable instruments, thus permitting the public to be warned.
The other suggestion was that a technical commission containing members with experience of erecting earth-quake-resisting buildings in New Zealand, Japan, California, and elsewhere should be set up to make proposals for the development of standardised' steel frame or other buildings at a cost within the reach of private enterprise in Quetta and other neighbourhoods.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 133, 7 June 1935, Page 9
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