Abstract
THE strong earthquake that occurred shortly after 8.30 A.M. on December 31 in south-east Africa possesses some interest as it visited a region in which destructive shocks are almost or quite unknown. Its epicentre seems to have been in Zululand, for damage to buildings was caused at Eshowe and other places. The shock was felt all over Zululand and Natal, in various parts of the Transvaal and the Free State, and from Lorenzo Marquez on the north to the Transkei on the south. Its disturbed area must therefore have contained about a quarter of a million square miles, which is more than that shaken by the great Japanese earthquake of 1923.
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Earthquake in South-East Africa. Nature 131, 19 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131019a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131019a0