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Show SCIENTIST LOCATES EARTHQUAKE CENTER LONDON". Feb. 22 Records of the great earthquake which shook many parts of the earth's surface on De- ember 16 and December 16. show that tho epicenter, or the point on tho earth's surface directly above the focus or origin of thi tremor, was at longitude 106 degrees, five minutes east, and latitude Zo degrees, five minutes min-utes north. This would be close to tho Chinese city of Plng-Dlang. In the pjrovlnpe of Kan-Su 1 r Herbert Hall Turner, professor of astronomy at Oxford Ox-ford university, collected, according to tho London Times, records from Sydney, Colombo, the Kadlak Island. Calcutta, Heluan, Egypt and BaSkat-koon. BaSkat-koon. Canada, and arrived at a definite defi-nite location for the .enter of the world-wide disturbance. Koports from the China inland mission, mis-sion, it is said, stale that towns 100 miles east of the center of the earthquake earth-quake were badly shaken. oo 1 |