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Earthquakes

  • R. H. TIDDEMAN1 

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I SHALL feel obliged if you will put on record in your columns that an earthquake was felt at Hastings by my sister and myself in separate rooms, on Tuesday morning last, the 16th inst., at 9½ minutes past 9 a.m. The undulatione were between E.S.E. and W.N.W., and lasted about 4 seconds.

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