SOUTH POLAR REGIONS

Evening Star, Issue 25679, 31 December 1945, Page 6

SOUTH POLAR REGIONS

SHAKEN BY EARTHQUAKE STRONGEST KNOWN IN AREA SYDNEY, December 30. , The most southerly earthquake ever recorded anywhere' in the world trembled through the seismograph at Riverview Observatory, Sydney, earlv yesterday morning. Its centre was calculated to have been roughly 1,500 miles due south of Sydney, near Macquarie Island. The earthquake was one of the biggest ever recorded in the southern ocean, and the most violent tremor in the Australian region since June. 1924, when an earthquake was centred closer to Macquarie Island than yesterday’s. The earthquake south' of Australia, reported at Riverview Observatory, Sydney, was also recorded at West Bromwich by a seismologist. Mr J. J. Shaw, who estimated that it occurred within 1,000 miles of the South Pole. Mr Shaw said: “ It was undoubtedly of great severity, and must have lasted several hours Ido not remember during 'my 38 years’ exnerience an earthquake occurring before this in tha South Polar region.” . ' , A New York message states that an earth tremor in New York, and another in New Hampshire were recorded yesterday by the Fordham University seismograph, but Father Lynch, the seismologist, says they were not connected with the tremor “ south of Australia,” which Fordham also recorded.

RECORDED IN WELLINGTON

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 31. The Wellington seismograph __ produced a record beginning at 5.56"a.m. on Saturday and lasting four hours. The seismologist describes it as a very big earthquake and most likely that described in the cables.