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ON the evening of November 25 an earthquake caused some apprehension in Lisbon and the surrounding country, though little material damage appears to have been done. Details of recordings from seismographic observatories are awaited before the exact epicentre can be determined. Several of these observatories report very large amplitudes. Fordham University (New York) reports the largest amplitudes since 1910; at Mr. J. J. Shaw's observatory at West Bromwich the recording levers were thrown out of their sockets; at Stonyhurst College Observatory the limits of registration exceeded the width of the paper; the shock was recorded at Kew and Oxford, though, according to Miss E. F. Bellamy, the amplitudes were not so great at the latter place.
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Recent Earthquakes. Nature 148, 690 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148690c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148690c0