SEVERE ’QUAKE
WORLD WIDE
ORIGINATED IN MONGOLIA.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, December 26. An earthquake lasting for two hours was registered by the British seismographs early on Christmas Day. Tne shake is believed to have originated in Mongolia, 3400 miles distant. llie shake, was so violent that it put some of the European apparatus out of action. OF EXTRAORDINARY SEVERITY.
NEW YORK, December 25.
Seismograph reports received here from various parts of the world indicate a heavy earthquake, probably in Asia. Tiie West Bromwich observatory, in England, and the central institute of meteorology at Vienna have reported respectively an extraordinarily severe and catatstropliic earthquake, approximately lour thousand miles away.
The Dominion observatory at Ottawa has reported similarly. It was of four hours’ duration. The centre was 6480 miles away.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1932, Page 5
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