RECENT EARTHQUAKES.
MORRXNSVHXE VISITATION. GEOLOGICAL REPORT. (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.' - ) ~, WELLINGTON, this day. A geological report on the recent Morrinsville earthquakes has been furnished to the Dominion Observatory by; Mr. L. I. Grange, of the Geological Survey Department. He describes the 41 tremors which were felt, giving the most severe shock- a value of eight on the Rossi-Forel scale, the severity of the shocks was confined to « small are* embracing tfcs township, an outer an* cf only a. few mike diameter being af«et«*L Hereyents eanfnslon. as to tTie direcGtai Cram Trim* the skoeke cum, bat state* that they-were evidently of; ahaDow «i----gin, and probabjy caused bjr moretseat along a fault trending WNW on the eastern side of the Pakaroa Range. Rumours that the shocks affected the Te Aroha hot springs he shows to be without foundation. . . . .
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 303, 22 December 1926, Page 8
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