Tokyo, Nov. 3.
Rudely awakening thousands of inhabitants of Honshu, the main Japan se island, an earthquake this morn ing rocked a wide area extending from Tokyo northwards to Aomori.
The tremor, officially described as being of "medium intensity," shook ff roof tiles, cracked window pane: and caused telephone and. power lines "to. snap. "Clocks were also stopped, the pendulums being affected bby the horizontal motion, No casualties were reported up to ten o'clock this morning, although the interruption of telegraph and {telephone communications made complete check dificult, Long-distance telephone service between Fukushima, Iwate and Aomori! pre= fectures was out of order.
The Fukushima Meteorological Observatory announced that the tremor began at 546:25.5 o'clock and lasted ten minutes, Maximum oscfilation was 12 millimetre. The epicentre was put by experts at a point in the Pacific Ocean, 120 kilometres off Int. Binks, in Myagl prefecture, This is the first earthquake of this degree of intensity to shake Japan proper, singe August 3, 1033,
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