'QUAKE DAMAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1938, Page 7

'QUAKE DAMAGE.

EUROPE TREMBLES

['Deaths on Continent; Alarm in London. WAR MEMORIAL SHAKEN. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 12. Thousands of people were alarmed by earth tremors at noon yesterday, lasting for several seconds. The shocks were felt in London, Paris and Brussels. Telephone communications were disrupted. Tlic tremor 111 Britain was most severe in the Woolwich district, and cars parked at the arsenal were actually seen to move. The earthquake is believed to have had its origin in the English Channel.

Another earthquake shock was felt in parts of France and Belgium about 2.30 p.lll. to-day. It lasted six seconds iri Brussels.

Yesterday's tremors were severely felt at Amiens and shook the Australian War Memorial at Villers Bretonneux, but there was 110 apparent damage. Authorities will examine St. Paul's Cathedral to-morrow to ascertain if the earthquake affected the dome. To-day's tremors on the Continent were not noticed in London. The first shocks were felt in several parts of Northern Europe, later messages state, including Holland and the Rhineland, an J lasted from 30 seconds to six minutes. | Observi rs declare the Great Fire Monument in London and the television tower at the Alexandra Palace swayed. Many street clocks were stopped. The shock was most severe in the region of Ghent, Belgium, where falling chimneys and bricks injured hundreds aiul killed a man. Another victim was fatally injured when thrown under a motor car. Twenty persons were injured by falling walls at Roubaix, France, where a wedding party fled from a church. A second shock was felt in Paris in the afternoon.