A SHARP ’QUAKE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11224, 1 June 1922, Page 5

A SHARP ’QUAKE

FELT YESTERDAY MORNING WELLINGTON BELIEVED TO • BE THE CENTRE. NO DAMAGE REPORTED. A sharp but brief earthquake shock was felt in Wellington and surrounding district a lew minutes after nine o’clock yesterday morning. The actual time recorded by the Go vernmeiit seismologist (Dr C. E. Adams) was 0.7 a.m., and he estimated that tho ’quake was of about thirty seconds’ duration. Before the shock was actually fed an indication of its approach was given by tho slight rattling of sliding doors of cupboards, from tile position of which it would seem that the move mentt, was from north-east to southwest.

Tho record of the shock has not yet- been developed, but it is not an ucipnted that it will show very much Dr Adams stated that ho had m indication as to tho centre of the disturbance. but it must have been in the vicinity of Wellington. There had been a good deal of local aotibity during the last two or three weeks, ho said, in the Taupo and Whakatan© regions, but this was tho first perceptible shake that had been felt in Wellington, for some time. Yet, he added, it would surprise n good many people if they knew how many small disturbances had taken place during the past twelve months The new 6eismographieal inatru ments had not yet been erected, otherwise he might have secured a moro definite idea of the principal features of yesterday’s ’quake. No damage appeared to have been caused. A ' Lower Hutt correspondent writes: —A sharp earth tremor,, which lasted for a few seconds, was felt yesterday morning, after nine, at Lowe> Hutt. No damage is reported.