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12 March. Off 10ยท9a. OK except
that paper began running up at 7.28
a.m.
Heavy shock of some kind recorded by
N-S component coming from N. and
beginning at 2:49 p.m. 11 inch (cor.
section being made for the hour mark
coming at 3 min. past the actual
hour, due to error made when clock
was set on 10 March.) and continu-
ing till about 2.52.30 p.m. Some doubt
regarding the record is raised in
my mind by the apparent continui-
ity of the regular needle trace through
the maze area. This will be settled
when I submit the record, which I
have collodionized, to Fr. Zondoff.
Preliminary and subsequent he-
mors are missing from the record,
seeming to show a lack of sensitivity
in the apparatus, if this was a true
earthquake shock. The record would
indicate the occurrence of a heavy
quake somewhere in the region from
Japan to Sumatra, or a lighter
quake further north
MacMillan tells me that by his
observation the Bond chronometer
was 10 min. 41.3 sec fast on 28.II
and gaining 2 seconds per day.