EARTHQUAKE AND TIDAL WAVE
SAMOA AND "FRIENDLY ISLANDS VISITED. ■ (Rec. July 10, 9.20 p.m.) Suva, July 10. An earthquake and tidal wave is reported from the Samoa Group. It, wis the severest on record. ' The Friendly Islands also experienced the earthquake. At Hapai three waves 14 feet high swept np, "but did no material damage. Iveppel Island .suffered the worst. Many of the native houses were destroyed, a concrete "wharf was carried away, but .there were 110 fatalities. The shock "was not felt at Nukualofa.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3133, 11 July 1917, Page 5
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