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The seismological instruments at the Dominion Observatory utarted recording the 'quake at 2.27 .a/.m. '~' The shock was obviously one of co nsiderablc amplitude and oscillations 'continued for over an hour. The shfike does not seem to have been felt .generally in Wellington. : ;l. Preliminary calculations!, from the seismograph records point bo the centre of origin being offi the coi'ist about sis degrees from Wellington, imdicating a migration northward and <Kistward of the centre of disturbance .'responsible for the major Hawkcs Bay 'earthquake of February last. ■
There was a further earth quake, but one of much lesser intensity!, recorded at 5.23 o'clock this 'morning, '.this is calculated to have been .127 miltes distant from Wellington, and probably had its origin in the. South Island ai:ea which has been unstable ever since the Murchison earthquake. i
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 12
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140CENTRE OUT AT SEA Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 12
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