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Word: shizuoka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1935-1935
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Next day, July 11, Japan suffered one of the worst quakes in a decade. In the tea and orange district of Shizuoka, 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, nine persons were killed, 101 injured, 125 houses destroyed. Mr. Greenspan had predicted other temblors "in Turkey, Italy and around the Mediterranean" to take place on or before July 14. In that case he seemed to be shooting all around the mark because minor temblors actually occurred on July 13 in Rumania and Bulgaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quakes & Prophet | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

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