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29 February in the archive

34 records carry this date, the earliest is from 1860, the latest 2012. Everything links out to where the original sits. A date on a record is the record’s own fact, these are leads, same standing as the shelf.

In the archive

The feed’s ledger holds 316 reports filed on this date, 2016 through 2024, from 26 that first year. The two counts measure different things, 34 records are dated this day on the shelf, while the ledger counts what the feed had filed on it.

The ground has shaken on this date too, GeoNet’s catalogue holds 4 magnitude-3+ quakes recorded on 29 February, the biggest a M4.3 (5 km deep) in 2016. The whole sequence is counted at /sequence, the story in plain language.

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