EARTHQUAKE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 April 1922, Page 5

EARTHQUAKE

DAMAGE IN JAPAN.

BY CABLE-PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT TOKIO, April 26.

One of the heaviest earthquakes on record has just been experienced in Japan. Houses in Tokio and Yokohama rocked for ten seconds.

Two Japanese were killed in Yokohama, where the foreign quarter was extensively damaged, few buildings escaping, and several collapsed.

Fifty feet of the wall of the outer moat, erected 800 years ago, fell. Numerous roofs tobagganed into the streets. Water mains were broken in several places, causing flooding. The entire population of both towns rushed into the street when the quake commenced.

No reports have yet been received from country districts, where it is believed the damage is heavy. The quake followed upon an extensive eruption yesterday of the volcano Asama.