’QUAKE IN JAPAN.
FOUR BREAKS IN RAILWAY. TELEPHONES INTERRUPTED. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE CAUSE#. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) TOKIO, November 6.
An earthquake broke the railway linking ITgeno and Iwamima at four points and disconnected the telephone over a large area. Considerable damage was done at Fukushima.
RECORDED AT WELLINGTON. CONTINUOUSLY FOR FIVE HOURS WELLINGTON, This Day. Complete records of the earthquakes in Japan, cabled to-day, were obtained on the seismographs at the Dominion Observatory at Kelburn. The instruments were recording continuously for five hours, waves coining later by & long arc round the globe, as well as directly. The first shock began to trace a record at 8.55 p.m. on Saturday (New Zealand time), this being • 5.43 p.m. Japanese time. At 11.2 p.m. (7.50 Japanese time), before the first record ceased, the second shock came. These two shocks were almost equal in intensity, both being quite vigorous. Yesterday, at 9.6 p.m. (New Zealand time) the third shock from the same place was recorded, this being even more vigorous than the two previous shocks.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 23, 7 November 1938, Page 5
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