SEVERE EARTHQUAKE
PORTS OF QUEENSLAND SHAKEN NUMBER OF BUILDINGS CRACKED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BRISBANE, April 13. (Received April 13, at 10.15 a.m.) An earth tremor, which was felt in the metropolitan area about noon yesterday, wag experienced along the coastal belt from Brisbane to Rockhampton. No extensive damage and no injuries are reported, but at Gayndah, in the Burnett district, a number of buildings were cracked and the stock on the shelves of the shops thrown to the floor. Alarmed residents at Kingaroy, where two distinct shocks were felt, rushed into the streets. The most severe tremor in the metropolitan area was at Cribb Island, where homes wore violently shaken and the residents terrified.
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Evening Star, Issue 22004, 13 April 1935, Page 15
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114SEVERE EARTHQUAKE Evening Star, Issue 22004, 13 April 1935, Page 15
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