Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to the reports in Boston papers, Ottawa was the center of yesterday's earthquake instead of the middle of the ocean, Dr. L. Don Leet, head of the Harvard seismograph station reported last night. Previously Dr. Leet had hazarded the guess that the center of the quake was in the ocean, but recent reports from other stations confirmed the fact that the worst tremors were somewhere in the vicinity of Ottawa...
...Station Out of Order...
...Leet said that the difficulty in tracing the quake was due largely to its intensity, since his own station had been completely disrupted and had recorded only a series of "whiteouts." There was every reason to believe that other stations in the vicinity had had the same difficulty...
...informed him that there had been a series of tremors which had shaken up most of greater Boston. Leet was besieged by calls from New England residents and from newspapers, but he admitted that the most he could do was to "case a few troubled breasts," since his own station was not functioning...
...Atlantic's weather reporting between them; storms east of 35° longitude (even with the eastern edge of Brazil) were hunted by Britain; those west of 35° by the U. S. and Canada. But since the opening of World War II, the great British weather-broadcasting station at Rugby has been silent, lest it give aid to enemy bombers, and U. S. weathermen have been left completely in the dark about weather forecasts east...