EARTH SHAKEN
GREAT ’QUAKE RECORDED SEISMOGRAPHS WRITE WILD MESSAGE (N Z.P.A —Copyrighti (Rec. 11.30) WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. One of the five greatest earthquakes ever recorded shook the earth to-day. Captain Elliott Robberts, of the United States Coastguard and geodetic survey said the earthquakes had a magnitude of 8.4 compared with the maximum of 8.5 previously recorded. Boston College and Harvard University seismologists said the earthquake reported from New Zealand was definitely not the one that was recorded so strongly in the United States, where seismographs wrote a wild incoherent message which fascinated scientists. A London message says that violent earth tremors were recorded in England at 2.15 p.m. G.M.T. • . The director of the seismological station at Dorking, Surrey, said: “This is about the biggest earthquake we have ever recorded.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 256, 16 August 1950, Page 5
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