THE PANAMA EARTHQUAKE.
RECORDED IX NEW ZEALAND
[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] WELLINGTON, Oct. 6. There was a distinct earthquake recorded by the Milne seismograph in Wellington on Thursday last. Mr G. Hogben states that the preliminary tremors reached Wellington at 4 hours 28min. 42sec. Greenwich mean civil time (3hr. 58min. 42sec p.m. New Zealand time), and the long waves .46nnn 36sec. later. This would correspond to a distance of 108 to 110 degrees, so that probably the centre was near or at lea,st within 125 miles of Colon on the Panama Canal.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3456, 7 October 1913, Page 5
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91THE PANAMA EARTHQUAKE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3456, 7 October 1913, Page 5
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