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BETWEEN seven and eight o'clock on Thursday evening last, Valparaiso, Santiago, and many other parts of Chile were visited by a very severe earthquake, causing, it is feared, heavy loss of life and widespread damage. As was the case in San Francisco, the earthquake was followed by many outbursts of fire and the failure of the gas and electric light. According to a telegram to the New York Herald from Valparaiso, that city experienced, without any warning, the day having been unusually calm and pleasant, two distinct shocks of earthquake, and, standing as it does upon a formation of granite and gneiss, it suffered severely. The same correspondent reported the occurrence of many landslides round the city. According to Reuter, the shock at Santiago de Chile was the most severe within living memory; it lasted three and a half minutes, and was followed by heavy showers. The seismograph at the observatory was thrown out of order by the violence of the shocks, which, though slight, continued for some days.
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The Earthquake in South America . Nature 74, 412 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074412b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/074412b0