THE CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE.
MR GORDON'S REPORT.
(by telegraph.—own correspondent.)
WELLiNOToy, this day. - # Mr GoRDOK, engineer of the MirieslJeparfc. mentreturaed last night from the Hanmer Plaiijs district, where he has.been ,investi_ gating the causes of the recent destructive earthquake. He states that he found the moat damage liad been caused to buiidirigs erected on land reclaimed from the swamp. Fissures from two to six inches wide were visible for a couple of miles in bed of the Percival River which passes' oifer an old Bwampi and others said to be two feet wide are reported to exist on the solid ground in the country further west. Mr Gordon judged that the seat of the: disturbances-must have been somewhere in the triangle between lines 'drawn from' Sumner to Cannibal Gorge and Glenroye sfcation. The eiiect in the neighbourhood of Hanmer Springs are so very slightthat there is no danger in proceeding with the Works which the Government contemplate placing there. Mr Gordon attributes the earth tremours to chernir cal action arising, from the upheaval'of a molten dyke through the higher strata.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 215, 12 September 1888, Page 5
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