EARTHQUAKES FELT
AUCKLAND'S EXPERIENCE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.!
AUCKLAND, This Day.
A prolonged earth tremor was experienced in Auckland at 11.36 ..a.m. today, followed by another distinct shock at 12.13 p.m. There is no seismograph in the city, "and' consequently there is no record of the duration, but the first shock was felt in several parts of the-city, notably in tall buildings. Office and factory equipment rattled, telephone bells rang, light globes swung, ;an'd peopl# seated at desks experienced a dizzy feeling. In one tall building a table on the top floor moved several feet, rattling and wobbling. Reports indicate that;many walls creaked, but the tremor was not of sufficient intensity, to be. generally observed. Some people said it; was sustained for nearly thirty seconds or thereabouts. v, . ■-. •■'- .
The second shake was not so generally felt. It. is believed . the shakes were moving from east to west. It is some years since Auckland expert enced, an earthquake.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 10
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