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ON August 24 an earthquake of considerable intensity caused destruction in places 50 miles apart in southern Peru. The epicentre of the shock was probably a little distance to the north-west of Acari, which is a town in the foothills of the Andes in the province of Arequipa. The town of Acari was almost destroyed and there are reported to be large numbers of dead and injured. At Nazca, a town some 50 miles north-west of Acari, one third of the buildings were completely destroyed and 80 per cent of the population are homeless. Here 20 people are reported to have been killed and several injured. At the coast near the port of Nazca the sea receded some 200 yards and then came back and flooded the port together with about 1,000 yd. of the Pan-American coastal highway. The shock was well recorded at Stonyhurst College Observatory, near Blackburn; the Rev. J. P. Rowland, S.J., reads ePE at 23h. 03m. 37s. U.T. on August 24, the maximum ground amplitude at Stonyhurst being 600u at 39m. 40s. U.T. The shock finished recording at 04h. 10m. U.T. on August 25, all the interpretations being tentative.
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Recent Earthquakes. Nature 150, 288 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150288c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150288c0