EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20566, 7 June 1932, Page 9

EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO.

MANY BUILDINGS COLLAPSE.. VOLCANO IN ERUPTION. (V.NTl'j'.D PR2S3 ASSOCIATION— ST K.ICTBIC TjttEOßArn COPTEIQHT.) (Received June O'th, 7 p.m.) \ .MEXICO CITY, June 5. Several small towns and villages were wiped out by the violent earthquake. Many churches and other big buildings collapsed. Tho centre of tho disturbance appears to have been the Colima volcano, which is at present in eruption. OBSERVATORY RECORDS IN CHRISTCHURCH. Records made at the Chri.stchurch Observatory on Friday night show one of the greatest movements sinco tho installation of tho Galitzen seismographs as a result of the recent big earthquake in Mexico. Tho shocks were .so pronounced as to cause the mirrors of the seismograph to swing for over two hours, and tho peaks on the lino of tho recording paper being as much as nine inches apart. Officials at the Observatory state that the earthquake recorded was preceded about a fortnight ago by a severe one in San Salvador, about 1000 miles distant, and this they claim is in conformity with the opinion held that it is unusual for a district visited by such an upheaval to bo similarly affected for tho next twenty years. It could therefore bo assumed that if there was another big earth-' quake recorded in the Dominion within tho next few years it would not occur in the Napier-Hast-ings district. Tho earthquake which occurred about 1000 miles away from New Zealand last w T eek was. they state, no doubt associated with the Hawke's Bay disturbance of fifteen months ago. Mexico lies about 7000 miles from the Dominion.