BIG EARTHQUAKE.
PROBABLY NEAR KERMADECS RECORDING'S IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. At 3.42 this morning the seismographs at the Dominion Observatory "began recording a big earthquake. The preliminary tremors lasted two minutes and fifteen seconds, and then violent oscillations were recorded for about three hours. A preliminary calculation indicates that the direction was N.N.E. of New Zealand, probably on the edge of the deep water near the Kermadecs.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1932, Page 9
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