EARTHQUAKE RECORDED HERE

Evening Post, Volume 55, Issue 55, 3 September 1923, Page 8

EARTHQUAKE RECORDED HERE

An excellent record of the disaster which has overtaken Japan was secured at, the Hector Observatory in Kelburn. Although the prints were not completely dry this afternoon,. Dr. C..E. Adams, the Government Seismologist, was able to make a few preliminary deductions, which he communicated to a "Post" reporter. The shock was first recorded in.Wellington at 2.40 p.m. oh Saturday, and it lasted for about six hours. A shock of less intensity was also recorded on the local seismograph on Sunday, about twentyfour hours after the first disturbance.. As far as can be ascertained at present the centre of .the shock was from 80 to 85 degrees from Wellington. The line passes through Japan. Dr. Omori, the famous Japanese seismologist, ■ Whose investigations into earthquakes have been of im: mense value to the scientific world, was absent from Japan at the time of the disturbance,' being in attendance at the Pan-Pacific conference in Australia. Dr. Omori intended to visit New Zealandj but it is probable that the happenings in Japan will necessitate his return to, Japan. ■ I . ■