Abstract
THE U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C., has announced the occurrence of an earthquake on October lOd. 20h. 48m. G.C.T. with provisional epicentre lat. 1° N., long. 125° E. The epicentre was determined from instrumental data obtained at twelve United States seismological observatories. The epicentre is to the west of the Molucca Passage and the nearest town of any size is Menada in the north of "Celebes. No damage has so far been reported from here. According to Dr. S. W. Visser and his colleagues of the seismological observatory at Batavia, small earthquakes are quite frequent near this spot. World-shaking earthquakes are somewhat infrequent, however, and the last ones were the swarm of July 10-12, 1926, epicentre lat. 1° N., long. 126° E. It is possible that the earthquake on July 10, 1926, was multiple, as the? residuals appear to show groupings which are confirmed by the S residuals.
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Earthquake in the East Indies. Nature 142, 949 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142949c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142949c0