PACIFIC QUAKE
WAVES ENCIRCLE EARTH. FIVE HOURS’ VIBRATION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. MELBOURNE, February 6. Local seismograph records show that tho earthquake in the Pacific early on Sunday morning was of great violence, and that tho earth’s crust vibrated for five hours. Tho first surface wave, after encircling the globe, passed Melbourne again some three hours later.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11438, 7 February 1923, Page 6
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57PACIFIC QUAKE New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11438, 7 February 1923, Page 6
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