BIG 'QUAKE
H.Z. RECORD REVEALS GREAT SEVERITY WELLINGTON, October 27. The eaiTlitiiutko mentioned in the cables as having occurred probably in Central or South America was recorded on (ho seismograph afi (ho Dominion Observatory. It first made itself evident about 3.30 a.m. on Tuesday, and lasted for some hours, the shock being of snob severity that the oscillations travelled right round the globs, and recorded themselves; a second lime. Judging by the records it would seem as if the location of Iho upheaval wir somewhere in Central America, the Alaskan shake reported on the same day being a local affair of a magnitude not comparable with the other one.
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Evening Star, Issue 19698, 27 October 1927, Page 6
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109BIG 'QUAKE Evening Star, Issue 19698, 27 October 1927, Page 6
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