New York and New Jersey had been jolted by a 4.8 earthquake on Friday morning, a uncommon prevalence within the area. However we will’t say we weren’t warned. Scientists have been predicting The Massive One might hit New York in some unspecified time in the future. And the predictions date again over a century.
The illustrations above ran within the November 1924 problem of Science and Invention journal. The journal was based by sci-fi legend Hugo Gernsback, and these had been very earnest predictions for the way forward for New York. The drawings depicted how Manhattan may crumble below its personal weight within the occasion of an earthquake, all as a result of there have been “caves or pockets” beneath the floor.
From the 1924 article:
A prediction that a while within the not far distant future New York Metropolis would, be shaken by an earthquake extra horrible than the one which wrecked Tokio [sic] final Summer season was made at this time by Professor David Todd, professor of astronomy at Amherst Faculty.
There have been quite a few articles printed within the mid-Twenties about earthquakes in city areas after that notably lethal quake hit Japan on September 1, 1923. The occasion would declare over 140,000 lives after the tsunami and fires ripped by Tokyo and Yokohama.
Extremely, some individuals of the Twenties blamed new applied sciences like radio for inflicting earthquakes. However given the ridiculous beliefs of individuals on social media right here in 2024, perhaps we shouldn’t decide them too harshly.
The Twenties was a heyday for nervousness about New York getting hit with an earthquake, however the remainder of the twentieth century additionally noticed completely different predictions about potential earthquakes in New York, all the best way as much as a 1995 article in New York journal, which warned one thing huge may very well be forward. Click on by the slideshow for extra examples from the previous 100 years.
