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Title
Chart shows severity of quake
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1944
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Shown is a portion of the chart registered on the seismograph at California Tech in Pasadena yesterday, showing the severity of the quake. Lines starting at finger and moving to right indicate main phase of temblors. Photo dated: December 8, 1944.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00057383
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 528.
CARL0000060033
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21690
Subject
Earthquakes
Earth movements
Seismic waves
Seismometers
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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