EARTHQUAKE IN MASTERTON
♦ SLIGHT DAMAGE REPORTED SHOCK LASTS TWENTYFIVE SECONDS \ I I’RESS ASSOCIATION' 1 FLT.GSAJI ) MASTERTOX, January ft An earthquake which registered between six and .seven on the Bose Forel scale, was felt throughout ft* district at 2.45 o'clock this aftenuxx. It lasted about 25 seconds. It appears to have been faithsevere in the Tinui, Castlepoint, acd Tewharau districts, where in one® two instances chimneys were dasaged, and crockery and other artiefe dislodged from shelves. The keeper of the CasUepoic lighthouse reports no damage th® beyond broken crockery. The direction appeared to be from north-ea: to south-west. An earth tremor was felt at Rimerston North this afternoon, hj was the worst since March 5, 183 i
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22304, 19 January 1938, Page 8
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