“MAY AFFECT CLIMATE”
ENGLISH SCIENTISTS’ FEARS DID QUAKE DIVERT GULF STREAM? RARITY OF SUCH EARTH TREMORS By Telegraph—Brers Assn. —Copyright. A London, June 8. Scientists fear that the earthquake experienced throughout England may cause a diversion of the Gulf Stream and adversely affect England’s climate. The Times, in a leader, states that in the past 1000 years 1100 earthquakes have been recorded in Britain, 822 of which were felt in Scotland. Throughout that period only two lives were lost. An apprentice was killed by falling masonry in 1580 and a baby was killed in Colchester in 1884.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1931, Page 7
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