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Deen demolished in San Diego from its violence, while the facts in the 
case are, that the steamer left that port twenty-four hours before the shock 
occurred there. 
i. earthquake, or more properly 
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ast, excepting, perhaps, that of the wave of the Simoda earth- 
854. The linear distance over which we are able 
course, amounts to six hundred and two miles, and its breadth, 
80 far as now ascertained, is two hundred and ninety miles. Tt has all 
Violent commotion at a distance from our coast, 
rom the best evidence attainable at present, it seems to have h 
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_ Sively proved from the fact that it was felt earlier at San Francisco, than 
at any other locality east of this city within the State. We have no 
time, at which the shock between eight and nine o'clock on the morning 
of the 9th took place, at four localities east of the city of San Francisco, 
mm this State; the shock at that hour seems to have been more gene- 
sia is proper here to state that three minutes four seconds was the 
the appearance of having been the terminal, movement of some more — 
pai 5 aaeaalinel 
Lat, | Lon. {Time of shock.|Elapsed time.| Velocity. |. 
ees ane Ai. Qielia miles. 
Ci ekdchaweg 87 48|12225| 8 13 30 0 00 00 
Py ere 88 82112128; 8 20 00 7 30 66 
tenes vse scutes Of O21 191 34} 8 23 00 30 65 
¥ TOR SESE 9h 4 eS Oe ew 85 rare) 118 46 8 45 00 $2 80 60. 
BO) nodes es cee esses | 8242111713 | 8 50-00 | 386 80 70 
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