GREAT EARTHQUAKE
WORLD-WIDE RECORDINGS CENTRE IN ATLANTIC OCEAN (Reed. f 7.<10 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 26 The most violent earthquake shock ever recorded in Britain put the seismograph at West Bromwich out of action at 6.8 p.m. yesterday. The tremors were so numerous that there was no hope of making a complete record, the levers of the recording instrument being thrown out of their sockets. The director of the Lisbon Observatorv said the shock was the most severe for' 186 years. In Lisbon many people rushed from buildings. The earthquake was recorded in Australia at four o'clock (Australian time) this morning. Recording instruments oscillated for five hours. The epicentre is believed to have been under the sea near the Cape Verde Islands. It was stated from Wellington last night that what was obviously a large shock at a very considerable distance from New Zealand was recorded at the Government Observatory at about 6.30 a.m. yesterday and continued for several hours. The records will he examined to-dav, until when it will not be possible to place the approximate location of the disturbance. However, it was stated that it would not be felt in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24133, 27 November 1941, Page 10
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