SEVERE EARTHQUAKE
DAMAGE ON FLINDERS
ISLAND
CENTRE OF DISTURBANCE
AT SEA
Melbourne, December 31.
A severe earthquake occurred at Flinders Island at 10.45 on Sunday, morning, lasting three minutes. It came from the north-cast, and shook houses, breaking windows and cracking walls and chimneys. The alarmed inhabitants rushed into the streets. Th® steamer Colliboi at the wharf, shook as though her engines were racing. Judging from; the experience of th® Union Company’s steamer kiwitea, the earthquake had its centre at sea. Th® captain stated that all aboard felt a submarine disturbance. The vessel was about thirty miles south-south-east of Cape Barren. The ship trembled and vibrated from stem to stern for thirty seconds, and then appeared to lift bodily in the water.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 83, 2 January 1930, Page 16
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