SEVERE EARTHQUAKE RECORDED
« ORIGIN PROBABLY 7000 MILES AWAY About 3 p.m. on Sunday a very severe earthquake was recorded at the Kelburn Observatory. Both the instruments, which are placed at right-angles to one another, gave vibration records some two inches across. The minor earthquakes experienced recently in the Wanganui and Otaki districts only caused the recording instruments to move a few .tenths of an inch. The exact location of the Sunday earthquake has not been worked out yet (the computations taking sortie considerable time), but the distance to the actual source is considered to be some 7000 miles, perhaps along the South American coast, in the vicinity of India. This earthquake was recorded at Kelburn for three or four hours, with a second smaller series of tremors a few hours afterwards. The Japanese earthquakes of 1923 gave indications at Kelburn of about the sqme magnitude as the present disturbance. Fortunately, it is not every earthquake recorded that causes disastrous results; for it must be remembered that a very considerable proportion of even the larger earthquakes occur under the ocean.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 221, 19 June 1928, Page 8
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