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AN earthquake was experienced in the Miyagi Prefecture in the north-east of the main island of Japan at 8 h. 44 m. G. C. T. (5.44 p.m. local time), and an after-shock followed two hours later. The focus appears to have been at some considerable depth, as the shock was felt in the four Prefectures of Miyagi, Iwate, Fukushima and Ibaragi, and even as far as Tokyo, though no damage is reported from this city. In this part of Japan there is a well-defined belt of earthquake epicentres stretching from Kama-gata through Wakamatsu and Utsunomiya to Choshi. Severe earthquakes happened in the north end of this belt in 1893, 1894 and 1895, the last two from the same epicentre, though more recently strong earthquakes have been more frequent along parallel belts to the south, west, north, and seaward of this. The shock which was recorded on seismographs at Kew and elsewhere in Great Britain at 8 h. 55 m. 59 s. G.C.T. and mentioned in the general press in connexion with the above, was not due to the Japanese earthquake but was from some epicentre at about 87° from Kew, though the exact location is not yet determined.
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Japanese Earthquake of November 5. Nature 142, 869 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142869d0
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