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FROM the brief account of it that has so far been received, the earthquake that disturbed eastern Canada and New England shortly after 1 a.m. on November 1 seems to be one of great interest. The epicentre is placed by Canadian seismologists at a point about 250 miles north of Ottawa. The shock was severe throughout the whole northern Abitibi region, and at one place railway lines were torn up and twisted. The earthquake is remarkable, however, not so much for its intensity in the central district, which does not seem to have been unusual, as for its large disturbed area. To the south, it was felt at Chicago, Washington, New York and Boston. The northern limit of the disturbed area may be difficult to trace, as it traverses a sparsely inhabited country, but the total area probably exceeds three-quarters of a million square miles, an amount not often surpassed in North American earthquakes.
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Canadian Earthquake of November 1. Nature 136, 753 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136753c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136753c0