SEVERE EARTHQUAKE
2180 Miles North-West Of Sydney (Received February 2, 8.40 p.m.) Sydney, February 2. The Riverview Observatory reports that a most violent earthquake shock, displacing seismograph instruments, was recorder] at about 5.15 o'clock this morning. The disturbance was about 2180 miles north-west of Sydney in the region of Aru Island, in the Arafura Sea, off the southern coast of New Guinea. Severe tremors were felt at Darwin, where houses were shaken. FELT IN NEW ZEALAND A few seconds after 7.13 a.m. yesterday one of the biggest long-distance earthquakes ever recorded on the seismographs at tlie Dominion Observatory started to make its tracing. It continued for a considerable period, and at its maximum phase the recording points were oscillating to their greatest possible extent. It was not possible to judge the direction of the earthquake, 'but it is thought to be about 3800 miles from Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 110, 3 February 1938, Page 11
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