Another Quake In Northern Europe
(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, June 13. Another earthquake shock was felt in parts of France and Belgium at 2.30 p.m. yesterday. It las’od six seconds in Brussels. Saturday's tremors were severely felt at Amiens, and shook '.he Australian war memorial at VillersBretonneux, but there was no apparent damage. The tremors on the Continent yesterday were not noticed in London. The first stages of a special examination of St. Paul’s Cathedral made today indicated that Saturday's tremor has not affected the building. The precision instruments installed a; the cathedral show that the vertical and lateral movement was even less than 1.500 th part of a millimetre. A full examination will 'take a cay or two. The authorities wish to see if the Dbme has been affected.
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Northern Advocate, 14 June 1938, Page 6
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