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A GREAT earthquake was recorded in Great Britain at about 1.31 p.m. on January 7. At West Bromwich, as Mr. J. J. Shaw states, the needle of the seismograph was displaced by about 6J in., or within half an inch of the amount produced by the Quetta earthquake of 1935. From the records obtained at Kew and Bombay observatories, it appears that the epicentre lay at distances of 4,700 and 1,850 miles from these stations. Thus, the earthquake must have occurred at 1.21 p.m., G.M.T., the epicentre being in eastern Tibet in about lat. 35 ° N., long. 97 ° E., a region about 500 miles north-east of the epicentres of the great earthquakes that occurred in southern Tibet on December 15, 1934, and January 3, 1935.
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Tibet Earthquake of January 7. Nature 139, 106–107 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139106d0
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