SEVERE EARTHQUAKE
SUPPOSED ORIGIN IN PACIFIC Sydney, March 23. The seismograph at Riverview College at 6.16 o’clock last night recorded the first of a series of severe earth tiemors, extending for a period of three hours, supposedly due to a submarine disturbance in the vicinitv of Malekula Island, New Hebrides. The maximum sweep of the instrument was five inches, which indicated the severity' of the shocks.—Press Assn.
QUEBEC SHAKEN Quebec, March 22. The city of Quebec and the eastern part of the province were shaken setlouslv bv the second earthquake in a fortnight, leaving the population bndlv suffering from hysteria. The damage is not extensive, but the shocks were the worst In this part of the country for a hundred years.—Sydney “Sun” Cable.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 24 March 1925, Page 6
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