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The Great Essex Earthquake

on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Victor Lucas tells the story of a spring day in 1884 when the people of Essex felt the tremors of an earthquake. He describes vividly the panic, devastation and confusion ir many villages from Colchester to the sea.
DR A. T. j. DOLLAR. director of the British Earthquake Enquiry, explains the need to chart carefully the earthquake areas in these days of high-rise buildings and atomic power stations.
Producer GWYNL-M HENDERSON British earthquakes: page 4

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Victor Lucas
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Dr A. T. J. Dollar.

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