EARTHQUAKE SHOCK
MOST VIOLENT VET RECORDED IN BRITAIN SEISMOGRAPH PUT OUT OF ACTION. SEVERE TREMORS IN LISBON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 26. The most violent earthquake shock ever recorded in Britain put the seismograph at West Bromwich out of action at 6.8 p.m. yesterday. The tremors were so enormous that there was no hope of making a complete record. The levers of the recording instrument were thrown out of their sockets. The director of the Lisbon Observatory said the shock was the most severe for 186 years. Many Lisbon people rushed from buildings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1941, Page 5
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94EARTHQUAKE SHOCK Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1941, Page 5
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