EAST COAST EARTHQUAKE
A SEVERE SHOCK
(Bv Teiegrapn—Preso Association.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. The records of Wednesday’s earthquake, taken on the siesmographs in Wellington, show that the origin of the disturbance was 127 miles front Wellington, either a few miles out to sea off Cape Turnagain or on the coast near Porangahau, where the severity of the .shock was placed at S on the Rossi-Foyel earthquake scale. This is equal in severity to the shocks experienced off Karamea and the northern .coast of the South Island during the Murchison earthquakes, when the Porangahau district experienced shocks of five and tsix degrees on the scale.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 February 1930, Page 11
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103EAST COAST EARTHQUAKE Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 February 1930, Page 11
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