EARTHQUAKES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7822, 15 June 1909, Page 2

EARTHQUAKES.

A SEISMIC WAVE IN .FRANCE-.

LATEST PARTICULARS.

Per Press Association.—Copyright. PARIS, June'l4. The line of Teat destruction was north-east from the Aix river to > Durance. The shocks 1 began with a'sound! like the roll of thunder amidst a tempest of wind.- The more solidly constructed buildings in the towns'resisted the shocks, but there was great destruction in the little hamlets and pit farms. In some cases whote families were killed. Quantities of tents and food have- been sent to the devastated districts. The shock was intense all along the French Mediterranean shore and, slighter shocks were felt from Montpellier to Grenoble and Perpignan. and Avignon. Some shocks were'felt on the Italian Riviera j also on both sides of Mont, Blanc and in Spain and Portu- . ;Further, shocks,were felt at 6 o'clock yesterday morning and the water in the wells in several places remained tepid, for hours. .*. ; M.Henfi Deparville; the /well-known, savant, in an interview published on the 6th, mentioned the twelfth' and thirteenth, as critical dates and he predicts shocks on the nineteenth and twentieth.-" . > Received June 15, 10.35 a.mi SYDNEY, June 15. .The severe .earth tremor which was registered at the observatory on' Sunday morning is supposed to have been caused by. a submarine disturbance a thousand miles qff, the New South Wales coast.