DISASTROUS ’QUAKE WITHIN THE YEAR
Earth Cracking, Says Eminent Scientists NEW ZEALAND OFF FAULT LINE [By Electric Cablo-Copyright.l lAusL and K.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Thursday. 7 p.m.) ’'LONDON, Sept. 14. The “Gazette” says that - scientists including Sir Richard Gregory are an. ticipating a disastrous earthquake within the year somewhere along the fault lino which since the San Francisco catastrophe in 1906 has stretched across the Atlantic to mid-Europe, Turkestan, thence to Japan. This is believed to be due to the earth cracking. Sir Richard Gregory says that formerly riliany shocks have been preludes to a violent ’quake The increase in number and frequency of shocks in the past two years, particularly in 1927, causes an expectation of disaster.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3615, 16 September 1927, Page 8
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