The Archive · 1929

FARTHQUAKE RECORDED! IN NEW YORK

Believed to Have Occurred in Vicinity of Japan New York, May The scixmograph at" Fordham University here to-lay registered an earthquake of two hours? duration, apparently: in the vicinity of Japan.

The shocks may have occurred in the ocean off the Japanese. coast, United Press.

Observatory reported that their instruments the earthquake report New York and they estimated it ty he 580 miles away from They p that the shocks were ttt distance away on the cir ceuniferenc# of a circle of that radius and could, quite possibly, have been somewhere inthe Pacific Ocean.

There was nothing to lead them to Velieve the tremors had originated Japan and it was their opinion that the earthquake was but one of many that are constantly occurring ander the bed of the Pacific.

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