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Show SEVERE SHOCKS I FELT ON COAST I LOB AN'GELES, Jan. IS. Severe '' shocks felt In many sections of T,os W( Angeles Tuesday night shattering win- K dow glass in some quarters and shak- & Ing frame dwellings In nine distinct ifej shocks between 7 10 and 8.30 o'clock B'r. agitated many residents Many believ- .ft ed them earthquakes while others ut- mp ., ' tributed them to big gun practice of Bp- four dreadnaughts of the fleet. mr i. NAVY OFFICERS LAUGH fl Navy officers at San Pedro ( Ixs n- H- I geles liarbor) said the ba'.tleshlp were Kg' I too far from shore for any concus- J slon due to their guns to be felt. Al 1 Venice and Iong Beach more than 2a BB 'miles closer to the dreadnaughts than mt this city, no shocks were felt ppfl Ihe shocks were of such extent in .-t residential sections here tha' from sex- J eral places it was reported that rest- dents left their homes and congregated BpP In the streets. Cracks In pla-verlng fpH s.t. reported from some residenct 1 !, GUN FLASHES VISIBLE fe At Santa Barbara, about 100 miles a.' north of here, tremors variously st- jl tributed to firing of big guns of the H Pacific fleet and to earthquakes were felt from 7:M to 8 o'clock Tuesdax BSflfl Shaking of xvlndoxvs at San Diego. I 130 miles south of here, was attrlbut- IB ed there to the firing, the flashes of the guns being visible from LaJolIu, la I miles north of San Diego. Windows B xvere shaken at San Diego about the ppfl same time Monday night, apparently ppB from the same cause, it xvas said. ppfl STRANGE RAmiM.s s'AN HKKNARPIMi, Calif, Jan is ' Strange rattllngs of doors and win- I doxxs. but none of the usual earth I movements of an earthquake. were j noted here Tuesday by peraons resid- Ing along the San Andreas fault, north I of here, whoro many earthquakes hive I been experlen ed. A. Bristol whose I home is within a few feet of the fault II said the tremors were mere like those caused by distant explosions. i At the stn.M hospital at Patlon doorw and windows rattled at Intervals for ! half and hour, comment ing at 7 o'clock The same experience a-v noted it the j same hour Mondax night at th hospital hospi-tal I FEIT IN RIVERSIDE RI KHSIDE, Calif, Jan. 18. Several Sev-eral vibrations were felt here at 7:30 I o'clock Tuesday night tho shocks rattling rat-tling dishes and continuing to 8 00 |