EARTH TREMORS AT OTIRA.
record of FIVE SHOCKS
[BY TELEGRAPH. OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Friday. Reports received by the Government astronomer, Dr. 0. E. Adams, regarding the earthquake shocks at. Otira on Wednesday morning, show that three occurred at intervals of three minutes, between 5.13 and 5.19 a.m., with others at 6.20 and 11 a.m., the movement being from north to south. One of r the shocks lasted half a minute, the others having durations of a few seconds. The early morning shock was felt most, generally, awakening those asleep, and . sending stones rolling down the mountains, but no damage was done. . The first shock reached Wellington at 5.14 a.m., arid a telegram from Christchurch reported a shako at 5.13 a.m., so that : probably the centre of disturbance was between Otira and Canst-, church, at which latter place the movement was from east to west*,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 11
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