AFTER THE SHAKE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 139, 17 June 1929, Page 10

AFTER THE SHAKE

SOARING NOISES -HEARD FROM COOK STRAIT DIRECTION A curious sequel to the first severe shock was a series of loud explosions, from the direction of Cook Strait. I These wero. first heard about five minutes' after; the shake, and they were not unlike the sound of drum-fire .from heavy guns. .'The noise appeared to j commence to the southward of. Island Bay and to increase-in intensity until it reached a position to the westward of ■ Makara. Some dark masses of cloud over Makara Hill caused some people to.think "that a thunderstorm was in progress, but the explosive reverberai tions followed one another so rapidly that they, could not accurately be ascribed to electrical discharges. They ; were heard at-Mr. Eric Kiddiford's station at OrongorongOj at Lower Hutt, Petone, Pencarrow Lighthouse, Northland,Karori, Nowtown, and in the city area. The actual earthquake was not. noticed at Orongprongo, but the explosive noises caused an effect there similar to concussion from the firing of heavy guns.. .'.....-. ... j ' Heard from Northland and Karori, the reports seemed to come from the direction of Makara. As they increased in intensity, and rapidity some slight trembling of. the ground, = like concussion, was noticeable.' Shops at Karori shook while the noises were in" progress, a period of about five minutes.! A second earthquake shock was also lelt. The impression that the booming roar was due. to a thunderstorm was in a sense, justifiable in that the sound seemed to come put of .the west.em sky. This was notieeabW both trpm Newtown and Northland. ' A Haughton Bay resident, who was on the top of. the.hills at the back of the bay about three or ■, four minutes atter. the earthquake shocks had sub-stated-to;a "Post" reporter that he.heard a series of explosions, just like LavJihCde^ 6 SOUndS reS6Mbled _ This resident, and a gentleman at \ Hk7 Z U> ati th-at th° s°™aswere wn- + heartl i]l Auckland and ! Wellington at the time of the Tara- !?»*. wl>e« the famous Pink -xnd White Terraces were destroyed.