HEAVY 'QUAKE ROCKS MEXICO
(Received 10 am.)
MEXICO CITY, December 24.^
Many people were sleeping out of doors In scattered parts of southern Mexico as the earth continued to settle after one of the most violent earthquakes for many years.., Communication lines are still disrupted. Four are known to be. dead, The population fled - panic-stricken to the open country. The extent of the damage is unknown. An earthquake of intense pro-
portion severely shook the capital
All instruments at the National Observatory were broken and
meteorologists are unable to determine the exact direction of the disturbance.
Hundreds of people aroused from sleep rushed into the streets. A man was electrocuted when a live wire fell. New York seismologists declared that the earthquake occurred probably in the Gulf of Tehuancepec, about 150 miles from the shore.
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Northern Advocate, 27 December 1937, Page 5
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