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AN earth tremor was felt on Tuesday night, November 14, in the New England States of Pennsylvania, Now Jersey, Maryland and Delaware. The epicentre of the shock was probably very close to Philadelphia, and in Baltimore pictures were knocked off walls and furniture overturned, which indicates at this place a probable intensity of IV on the Rossi-Forel scale. Damage was not serious and there were no casualties. Although earth tremors are not unknown in Now England, it is unusual to have one so strong as this. California and the western States are much more liable to shocks than the eastern States.
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Earth Tremor in New England. Nature 144, 904 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144904c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144904c0