Slight quake
An earthquake early yesterday was barely big enough to register on Christchurch seismographs. The shock, recorded at 2.27 a.m., was sufficient to register on the Canterbury Museum recorder — which takes signals from a sensor at Cashmere — but nowhere else, said Mr Murray Lowry, a seismologist at the D.S.I.R.'s observatory at Lower Hutt. From the shape of the trace, it looked very close, but the device was not calibrated for magnitude, he said. It was probably “quite a bit below magnitude four,” he said.
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Press, 7 October 1988, Page 5
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