SOUTH POLAR EARTHQUAKE
SYDNEY, Dec. 30, The most southerly earthquake ever recorded anywhere "in the ' world trembled through the' seismograph at Riverview Observatory, ■ Sydney, early yesterday morning. Its centre was calculated to have been roughly 1500 miles due south of Sydney, near Macquarrie Island. The earthquake_ was one of the biggest ever recorded in the southern ocean. A London message says that the earthquake was also recorded at West Bromwich by the seismologist, _ Mr J. J. Shaw, who estimated that it occurred within IUOLT miles of the South Pole.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXVI, Issue 27, 31 December 1945, Page 5
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