NEAR NEW GUINEA?
ORIGIN OF EARTHQUAKE,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, Friday.
An earthquake of submarine origin is believed to liave occurred near New Guinea at 7.55 a.m. to-day. The seismograph at the Magnetic Observatory at Christchurch recorded the first tremor, which, beginning , abruty, lasted with varying intensity for about five minutes. Eight minutes after the first tremor a second ehock, sharper, longer and much more obvious than the first, was recorded. Shocks were recorded spasmodically for two hours.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1938, Page 11
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