VIOLENT ’QUAKE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 29 November 1945, Page 5

VIOLENT ’QUAKE

CENTRE NEAR HIMALAYAS RECORDED IN SYDNEY AND LONDON Sydney, Nov. 28. An earthquake estimated to have been five or six times more violent than that which wrecked Tokio in 192? was recorded in Sydney to-day. The director of the Riverview Observatory. Father O'Donnell, said that the quake was one of the largest if not the largest ever recorded at Riverview. The upheaval is believed to have occurred in the Himalayas near the Punjab-Tibet 1 frontier, 6600 miles from Sydney. Be--1 ginning at 8.11 a.m. waves caused by ! the shocks were recorded continuously for five hours. The maximum swing of the recording light spokes of the seismographs was probably more than two feet. The earthquake was also | recorded at the Sydney observatory. FELT IN LONDON London, Nov. 28. The big earthquake shock recorded in Sydney was also registered at West Bromwich at 10.6 p.m. G.M.T. yesterday and at Bombay and Delhi at 3.29* a.m. to day local time. The recording pointers at West Bromwich oscillated over 12 inches when surface waves arrived at 10.40 p.m. The Seismologist. Mr J. J. Shaw, said that the centre of the shock was 3985 miles from West Bromwich. The waves appeared to arrive from the east, in which case the location of the earthquake would either be northern India or north of the Himalayas in western China. Three and a-half hours later the earth was still vibrating considerably. An official of the observatory at Bombay said that the earthquake was : located about 250 miles north of Bombay and he believed that the epicentre > was out to sea. Delhi estimated that ' the shock occurred about 1400 miles • west of New Delhi in the vicinity of , the Gulf of Oman. The tremor shook ; Karachi and was felt throughout the Lasbela State of Baluchistan, t No casualties and no damage have s r > far been reported. t * -■ - RECORDED IN WELLINGTON Wellington, This Day. Kelburn Observatory reports that the I record of an earthquake began at 10.15 ■ a.m. yesterday and continued for sev- [ eral hours. It was one of the longest [ and severest ever recorded here, and on * such a scale that it will take some time I to sort out the pulses to ascertain tho approximate distance.