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Show oo INSTRUMENTS RECORD SEVERE EARTH TREMOR WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. A severe earthquake which began at 3: US o'clock and hutted until 4:45 this morning was reported by Fathei Francis Tondorff. director of the I Georgetown selsmolojjncal ob'servatdn The disturbances was Indicated by tho instruments as being 2200 miles OUth of Washington and reached Its highest Intensity at 3 3H. Father Tondorff Ton-dorff said Tho seismograph record indicated a disturbance even morethan that recorded December 16, laTst, Father Tondorff said. The scene of the December De-cember 16 disturbance was never definitely established. Father Tondorff astimattisr today! disturbance probably was in South America. CHICAGO. Feb. 4 The weather inn can seismograph at the University of Chicago recorded an earthauake within lT.'i miles of Chicago" this morning. The shocks were described as of medium intensity, the first occurring oc-curring at 2 38 a. m., the maximum coming ten minutes la:er and tb final tremor at .. 4 a. ni K mining together of the record lines prevents I the government experts from learning learn-ing the direction of the shucks fioni Chicago. |