SYDNEY'S AMPLE RECORD
Rec. 9 a.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 28. An earthquake estimated to _ have been five or six times more violent than that which wrecked Tokio in 1923 was recorded in Sydney today. The director of the Riverview Observatory, Father O'Donnell, said it was one of the largest, if not the largest. ever recorded at Riverview. He believed it to have occurred in the Himalayas, near the Punjab-Tibet frontier, 6600 miles from Sydney. Beginning at 8.11 a.m., the waves caused by the shocks were recorded continuously for five hours. The maximum swing of the recording light spots of the seismographs was probably more than two feet.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 130, 29 November 1945, Page 7
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106SYDNEY'S AMPLE RECORD Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 130, 29 November 1945, Page 7
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