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SEVERAL severe earth tremors and moderate to strong earthquakes have also been experienced recently in widely separated areas in Italy. On January 25 a severe tremor was felt at Genoa in Italy. This did no damage. On February 1, early in the day, a severe earthquake shock caused considerable damage to the famous cathedral town of Siena in Italy. A less severe shock was felt at Florence, and, presuming it was the same earthquake, the epicentre was close to Siena (lat. 43° 20′ N., long. 11° 20′ E.) On the same morning three shocks were felt in Bucharest, in Rumania. No damage was done. The epicentre of this earthquake was estimated in Bucharest to have been in the Black Sea, five hundred miles east of Bucharest.
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Other Recent Earthquakes. Nature 145, 220 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145220a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145220a0