EARTHQUAKE CENTRE
EAST OF MAStERTON DISTURBANCE RECEDING (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. Seismologists from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, who went to the Masterton area immediately after .the earthquake, have returned to Wellington after making investigations on the spot. They definitely locate the centre of the disturbance as .8 miles east-north-east of Masterton. The full force was along the north-south line. East and west of that line was not so severely shaken as places on the direct line. In a straight line north there fortunately were no towns. South lay Gladstone and Martinborough. Masterton, not' being in a direct line, was not so badly shaken as it might have been, although the shake was severe. The fact that .the after-shocks are progressively getting fewer is regarded as a reassuring sign that the disturbance is dying down.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20825, 2 July 1942, Page 5
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