EARTHQUAKE SHOOKS

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11685, 24 November 1923, Page 5

EARTHQUAKE SHOOKS

RECORDED AT WELLINGTON. SOUTH ISLAND LOCATION. Reports .received yesterday by tho Government Astronomer, Di. C. E. Adams, show that the earthquake shocks experienced at Otira on Wednesday morning followed one on another at intervals of three minutes, 5.13, 5.16, and 5.19 a.m., with a break then till 6.20, and 11 a.m., the movement being fiom north to south, and one of tho shocks being recorded as lasting half a minute, the others having durations of three, two, three, and one seconds. The early morning shock was felt most generally, awakening those asleep and sending stones rolling down the mountains, hut no damage was done. A second examination of the Wellington records showed that that Bhock reached Wellington at 5.14 a.m., and a telegram from Christchurch, reported a shake at 5.13 a.m. on Wednesday, so that probably the centre of disturbance was between Otira and Christchurch, at which latter place tho movement was from east to west. Tho shake was generally felt by persons in motion in Christchurch, and disturbed moveable objects, without, however, doing damage, and it was apparent that the shake there was much more pronounced than at Wellington. WEST COAST OF SOUTH ISLAND. A fairly severs afaook of earthquake was recorded at the Magnetic Observatory in Hagley Park, Christchurch, on Thursday morning at 13 minutes past 5 o’clock. Tho origin of the disturbance was west of Christchurch, and it was felt at Waiau, Hokitika, and Ashburton, but no damage is as yet reported-