SEVERE EARTHQUAKE
MINOR DAMAGE CAUSED
V7LDE AMERICAN AREA
(Reed. Get. 29, 11.19 a m.) QUEBEC, Oct. 19. An earthquake in the city of Quebec and its environs stopped clocks at 6.54 a.m. to-day. Many people wen; frightened and ran into the streets. No one was injured, and the damage was negligible.
Minor tremors were felt in Montreal and north-eastern and mid-western portions of the United States. In Boston, the Harvard seismologist reported tremors cf major : ntensity.
A message from New York stales that earth tremors described as a "major" earlhcuiake centr"- -n ' •
western Atlantic were felt in the
entire north-eastern seaboard as far west as Ohio. Dishes rattled, p'cturcs became crooked, automobiles swe-wei, and some houses rocked on their foundations, but the damage was not important.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 12
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126SEVERE EARTHQUAKE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 12
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