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Show Gentle Shock Registered at Coast. San Francisco A mild earthquake, lasting about ten seconds, shook San Francisco Sunday at 2:52 p. m. No damage was done. The shock was felt by residents of Palo Alto, thirty miles to the south. It was described there as "very mild." Vibrations of an earthquake perceptible for several seconds here at 2:-53 this afternoon were registered for a period of Irom four to five minutes on the s ismo-graph ismo-graph of Lick observatory on Mount Hamilton near here, according to Dr. Robert Aitken, associate director of the observatory. Dr. Aitken described the quake as of minor intensity and on the same line as the big quake of 1906. |