THE CAUSE OF EARTHQUAES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 20 April 1906, Page 3

THE CAUSE OF EARTHQUAES.

DR. BELL'S VIEWS.

WELLINGTON, this day! Or. Bed, Director of the Geological ; wwey. ia. explaining to a reporter the Base of earthquakes, said they are more common in mountain ranges ■■ffl comparatively recent geological age wan those of greater antiquity, bec-anse J the latter the underlying et:isr has IB time to adjust itself to the eiaidi*"S;PK>duced o by their relation. Earth- " ; ffcfces due to dissolution and to vol- *!!- explosions were, as a rule, local, those of the latter description *tf"been known to exercise greater in"Of course," he said, "earfckoccur anywhere, but those | *»-far :the greatest magnitude -and oi *pst far-reaching effect are distinctly "seated with lines of tension in the ||t||p mist {produced by terrestrial "faction along mountain chains, Wisk it is this cause which very rise to the -disastrous . of San Francisco, and to ; ?&$■ Quito, Lisbon, and others." I. he thought the eruption of I l^" ls anything to do with the I Bkc in.San Francisco, Dr. Bell I »l SWne zu&orittes held that earthand volcanoes -were dae to the I \ I** causes, or that the** -was a. remote f between-them. Be <SB not, I fask, ha^vg a *$

Vesuvius had much to do-with the disturbance reportedbv cable, if It - had at all. lh the course of : further conversation, Dr.' Bell stated that a hne of seismic disturbance ran right through.New Zealand from south-west to north-east. Wellington'is situated right on the line of weakness.'