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EARTHQUAKE STUDY

Engineers Hold Symposium Estimating future earth* quakes on tile bam of very little experience was a problem New Zealand's geologists, seismologists, and engineera all had to grapple with, said Dr. F. F. Evison, director of the Seismological Observatory, Wellington, Dr. Evison was one of five speakers in an earthquake engineering symposium organised by the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers. The whole of New Zealand was part of an active earthquake belt which stretched from Japan and East Asia, Dr. Evison said. The history of large earthquakes in New Zealand was so short that it was important to-learn as much as poesible about the smaller ones. The practice in some overseas countries of determining earthquake zones was not, he thought, quite so applicable a system in New Zealand, where earthquakes were widely scattered. Talking of the current work of the earthquake committees of the Institute Of Engineers and the New Zealand Standards Institute, Mr I. L. Holmes said the former was attempting to get a world conference of earthquake engineers held in New Zealand in 1965. There was a strong possibility of the conference being held, as support had been given by the Government and Treasury support had already been guaranteed.

The chief concerns of the engineers’ earthquake committee were long-term earthquake engineering, the development of a code of practice, and determining the most urgent field of research. A lecture on "The Dynamic Approach To Design” was given by Mr R. Shepherd, lecturer in civil engineering at the University of Canterbury; and the regional geologist with the Geological Survey in Christchurch (Dr. R. P. Suggaite) explained in his paper, “Local Geology and Earthquakes,” the two principal ways in which geologists contributed to the study of earthquakes. Mr A. H. Johnston, the senior structural engineer with the Ministry of Works in Christchurch, spoke on current Ministry of Works design policy.

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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29819, 11 May 1962, Page 10

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EARTHQUAKE STUDY Press, Volume CI, Issue 29819, 11 May 1962, Page 10

EARTHQUAKE STUDY Press, Volume CI, Issue 29819, 11 May 1962, Page 10

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