BIG ’QUAKE IN N.I.
Shock Felt In Many Centres
(NX. Preu Association) NAPIER, April 14. A big, shallow earthquake rocked the east coast of the North Island at 8.45 on Friday night. It was felt at Whakatane, Gisborne, Napier and other centres. The delicate visual seismogroph at the Kelbum Seismological Observatory at Wellington was knocked out of action by the peak wave of the earthquake at 8.45 p.m. Another machine classed the tremor at 8.5 on the Richter scale.
"This put it in the class of a big earthquake,” said Mr G. G Muir of the observatory staff. “It is forunate that it was not centred near the eoast.”
The centre was 370 miles from Wellington, probably in the Bay of Plenty. The shoek appears to have been most intense on a line running through Taupo, Waikaremoana, and Wairoa. In Napier and Hastings suspended lights swung erratically and many people made for .out of doors.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30106, 15 April 1963, Page 13
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