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WE have received from Kew Observatory a notice of a violent earthquake recorded there at 14 h. 16 min. on September 11. The epicentre is estimated to have been in about lat. 43 ° N., long. 146 ° E., or about thirty miles off the south-east coast of the northern island of Hokkaido. This point is about thirty miles to the north of the epicentre of the destructive earthquake of April 25, 1843, after which sea-waves 16 ft. high swept over the coast, and about eighty miles north-north-east of that of the less destructive earthquake of March 22, 1894, which was followed by seawaves about 5 ft. high on the coast of Hokkaido and 10 ft. high at Kamaisi on the east coast of Japan. A very violent earthquake was recorded at the Observatory at 2 h. 8 min. 13 sec. G.M.T., on September 20. The epicentre is estimated to have been 7,500 miles away, probably under the Pacific Ocean near the Mariamme Islands.
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Recent Earthquakes. Nature 136, 510 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136510c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136510c0