What are generally known as “the Cheviot earthquakes” were accompanied ;by loud reports. Some of these were j heard as in the air, others as at the | earth’s surface, and yet others as underground. Air A. AlcKay, Government | Geologist, has come to the conclusion ! that tlie reports were electric in charj actcr, and that although they were ! contemporaneous with the earthquakes, ] they were not dependent oil them. The j aerial explosions, some of which soundjcd like the firing of numerous rifles, I may, he thinks, be compared to what ! is popularly known as a thunderbolt. ; Similar reports have been heard in the | districts’ in question at times "when there ; were no earthquakes, as, for instance, when snow had been lying thick upon the ground.
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New Zealand Mail, 29 January 1902, Page 45
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