EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 7 November 1938, Page 8

EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN

COMMUNICATIONS CUT OFF [U.P.A.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrightl TOKIO, 6th November. As a result of the earthquake which shook Japan yesterday all communications have teen cut off in the coastal provinces north of Tokio, where the shocks were very severe. A goods train was derailed and 50 houses wrecked in the town of Mito.

RAILWAY LINE DAMAGED

(Received 7th November, 9.50 a.m.) TOKIO. 6th November. The earthquake broke the railway linking Egeno and Iwanuma at four points and disconnected the telephone over a large area. Considerable damage was done at Fukushima.

RECORDED AT WELLINGTON

WELLINGTON, This Day: Complete records of the Japanese earthquakes were obtained on the seismograph at the Dominion Observatory a* Kelburn. The instruments were recording continuously for five hours, waves coming later by a long arc round the globe, as well as directly. The first shock began to trace a record at 8.55 p.m. on Saturday, New Zeaalnd time, this being 5.43 p.m. Japanese time. Ai 11.2 p.m. (7.50 p.m. Japanese time) before the first record ceased, the second shock came. These two shocks were almost equal in intensity, both being quite vigorous. On Sunday, at 9.6 p.m. New Zealand time, a third shock from the same place was recorded, this being even mbre vigorous than the two previous shocks.