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DURING July and August 1942, thirty earthquakes were registered by the instruments at the Swiss observatories of Zurich, Chur, Basel and Neuchâtel (Swiss Earthquake Bull., No. 146 and No. 147). The distant earthquakes have, for the most part, been mentioned previously in the columns of NATURE, but the local earthquakes have not. On July 1 an earthquake was felt with intensity V (Rossi-Forel scale) in the Pays d'Enhaut. It was registered at Zurich at 23h. 43m. 13.3s., the epicentre being some 135 km. distant. On July 17 an earthquake was registered at Chur at l0h. 27m. 08.8s., which had its epicentre in the Schwäbische Alb, and on July 18 an earthquake registered at Basel at 15h. 46m. 08.3s. had its epicentre less than 10 km. to the north-west of that station. The earthquake of August 27, registered at Zurich at llh. llm. 21.9s., had its epicenter 70 km. from that station and was felt in the neighbourhood of the Brünig and Lungernsee. Finally, the earthquake of August 28, registered at Zurich at llh. 28m. 58.4s., had its epicenter 71 km. from that place and was felt with intensity V in the neighbourhood of the Hohenstollen.
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Earthquakes Registered in Switzerland. Nature 150, 545 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150545b0
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