Talk:1848 Marlborough earthquake

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Did you know... that most buildings damaged in the 1848 Marlborough earthquake in Wellington, New Zealand were rebuilt with wood, reducing the damage and loss of life in the more powerful Wairarapa earthquake of 1855?

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During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://sp.lyellcollection.org:/cgi/content/abstract/290/1/387
- In 1843 Wanganui earthquake on 2011-05-25 02:05:10, HTTP Error: InvalidURL
- In 1843 Wanganui earthquake on 2011-06-01 22:52:16, HTTP Error: InvalidURL

--JeffGBot (talk) 22:54, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Working fine. Mikenorton (talk) 19:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]