STUDY OF ’QUAKES
World-Wide Programme (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 4. Dr. F. F. Evison, director of the geophysics division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, has been invited to attend a special study' conference on earthquakes in France this month. The conference has been organised by the Vela scientific information analysis centre of Michigan University, and will be concerned with problems arising out of the world-wide Vela seismograph programme of the United States Government. Under this programme seismological observatories throughout the world have been fitted with standard American seismographs, to give uniform coverage.
New Zealand runs sets in Wellington, Scott Base, in the Antarctic, and Afiamalu, in Western Samoa.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30563, 5 October 1964, Page 22
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