The Archive · 1941

Earthquakes Registered From Philippines Area

New York. May 18.

The Fordham University seismostaph on Friday recorded three earthquakes. centred about 8,000 miles from New York and believed to have occurred in the direction of the Philippines.

The shocks were recorded at 10.40 pin. 1044 p.m. and 1054 p.m. E.D.T. (Rome reports said that shocks of such severe intensity as to damage seismological instruments were recorded at the femed Bendanimi laboratory on Friday at 11:02 pin. The quake was thought to have been centred about 10,000 kilometres away).—United Press.

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