EARTHQUAKE KILLS FORTY.
MANY BUILDINGS WRECKED.' Br Tclesraptt—Press Association-Copyright. St. Petersburg, January 4. Router's Agency advises that an earthquake lasting iivo minutes was experienced in Russian Turkestan. Half tlio houses in tho city of Vyernyi wore destroyed. Fissures appeared at Kopal, n town 170 miles north-east of Vyernyi, on the highway, and at an altitude of' 3200 ft. St. Petersburg, January 4. Forty corpses have . been recovered from buildings wrecked at Vyernyi.
SEVERE SHOCK. RECORDED. ■ London, January i.The seismograph at West Bromwich recorded a shock, beyond tho capacity of tho instrument, tho necdlo of which broke.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1018, 6 January 1911, Page 5
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96EARTHQUAKE KILLS FORTY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1018, 6 January 1911, Page 5
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