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DURING July, nineteen strong earthquakes occurred in various parts of the world, the strongest being of instrumental scale 7½ and occurring off the southwest coast of Peru on July 20. It had a depth of focus of 100 km. Two earthquakes on July 16 radiating from a focus having an epicentre near the coast of Guatemala and having strengths 6¼ and 6¾ were felt in Guatemala and San Salvador. The only earthquakes to do damage during the month occurred on July 20, damaging buildings on Coiba Island.
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Earthquakes during July and August. Nature 162, 768 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162768c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162768c0