BIG ’QUAKE RECORDED
DOMINION OBSERVATORY CONFUSED MOVEMENTS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Seismographs at the Dominion Observatory started recording ; a big quake at 12.18 p.m. yesterday.' The instrument recorded large movements but the record is a very confused one and, as yet, it is not possible to decipher much from it. The movements lasted between three and four hours.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20132, 29 December 1939, Page 11
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60BIG ’QUAKE RECORDED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20132, 29 December 1939, Page 11
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