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ON instrumental reports from the seismographic stations of Georgetown, Tucson, St. Louis, Honolulu, Pittsburg, Manila, Weston, Fordham, Pasadena, Hong Kong, Phu Lien, Apia, Huancayo and Lincoln, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in cooperation with Science Service and the Jesuit Seismological Association has determined the epicentre of the earthquake of October 17, 1939, as having been provisionally in islands of the New Hebrides group in the Pacific Ocean. More precisely, the epicentre was situated in the sea between the islands of Male-kula, Ambrim and Pentecost. This is a seismic area particularly liable to deep focus earthquakes, and this shock was no exception, being situated at a depth probably near 100 km.
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Earthquake in the New Hebrides. Nature 144, 975 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144975e0
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