TIDAL WAVE LIKELY
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Oahu Island Threatened BEACH DWELLERS WARNED A
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Received Saturday, ,9.4,0^ a.m. NEW yORK, Nov. 1. A tidal wave, app.arently caused by a violent ' eartbquake in ' the Aleutians, appears likely to strike Oahu Island at any moment, says the United Press' Honolulu correspondent. The tidal wave is expected to be less severe than that on April '2, which killed 173 and ieft thousands homeless in the Hawaiian Islands, but the Navy has rjdayed a warning to the police, who have put thousands of residents along the beach on the alert. The Fordham University seismograph recorded a violent earthquake, which was indicated as being in the Aleutians, at 6.25 a.m. - today. The seismograph at Geoj'ge town University, Washington, ■ was similarly affected. Recorcled in Wellington A record lasting two and a-half hours was made at 11.38 p.m. yesterday by the Dominion ObservacoiV seismograph at Relburn. it is officially stated that the record is undoubtedly of the Aleutian earthquake, being consistent with an earthquake at that distance and certainly of its destructive force.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 November 1946, Page 5
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177TIDAL WAVE LIKELY Chronicle (Levin), 2 November 1946, Page 5
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