PACIFIC EARTHQUAKE

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 120, 6 February 1923, Page 8

PACIFIC EARTHQUAKE

DAMAGE IN HAWAII

FURTHER SHOCKS REGISTERED SY TELIGRAPH—PMSS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. (Rec. February 5, 8.25 p.m.) Now York, February 5. Further reports in regard to yesterday’s earth disturbances strengthen tho belief that the greatest upheaval occurred in the bed of the Pacific. Honolulu dispatches state that Hilo suffered tho greatest damage, probably amounting to 1.500,060 dollars. Wharves and railway bridges were destroyed. and several large liners suffered small damage. Pagopago reported that no shock was felt at Samoa. Tho United States-Guam cable is broken, but it is not believed that Guam has suffered.

'Hie Hawaiian seismographs registered further shocks, estimated at miles distant. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

LOCALLY Dr. C. E. Adams, Government Seismologist, has obtained a remarkably fine, record of the Pacific earthquake (reported from New York), which reached Wellington at 5 p.m. on Friday and continued to write its story for three hours. ’ The shake is clearly though weakly shown by the old Milne seismograph at Kelburn. Dr. Adams has. however, had the new Milne-Shaw instrument, which is vastly more sensitive. mounted for some time on a temporary base at Victoria Collerjs. The record is a. very clear one, and from it the estimatejs made that the maximum movement of the earth here during the shock was the two-thirds of a millimetre, or about one-fortieth of an inch. The origin of the disturbance was apnroximately 3500 miles distant. Another earthquake of much less intensity was recorded at about 9.30 a.m. on Friday. This originated »t a distance corresponding to that of Tonga. News from the islands will be eagerly anticipated, as much damage may have been done at places more remote from the cable or wireless than is Hawaii. EARTHQUAKE RECORDED AT SYDNEY (Rec. February 5, 7.20 p.m.) Sydney, February 5. The seismograph at Riverview recorded the earthquake mentioned in yesterday’s American cables. The places of origin are in the Aleutian Islands. —Press Assn. FELT AT BIRMINGHAM AND FLORENCE (RoF. February 6, 0.35 a.m.) London, February 4. Tho great earthquake shock was felt at Birmingham seismograph, the needle being violently thrown off the instrument repeatedly. Also at Florence seismograph for five hours shocks were recorded. —The “Times.”