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ACCORDING to a radio message from Tokyo, the largest earthquake since 1930 shook southern Formosa on December 17. The epicentre is likely to have been near the town of Kagi around which most of the damage was done. Seventy-seven people were seriously injured and eighty-seven slightly hurt when 612 houses were destroyed and 918 badly damaged. Railway and telephone communications were temporarily severed. On the same day a violent earthquake occurred in the Mughla district of south-western Anatolia in Turkey. Damage was done to about eight hundred houses and a hospital, but only a few persons were injured. Oil December 20 an earthquake of moderate intensity shook Quetta. The shock lasted, according to human perception, for about ten seconds and was accompanied by a low rumbling sound. No damage has been reported, probably due to the new town having been built according to earthquake-proof design.
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Recent Earthquakes. Nature 149, 20 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149020b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149020b0