SEISMIC DISTURBANCES.
DISTANT'EARTHQUAKE RECORDED ON TELESCOPE. (Pkb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 3. While testing the transit telescope this morning by means of a. spirit level, Dr Adams the Government Seismologist, noticed the bubbles oscillating s.owly. This phenomenon lasted for 10 minutes a clear indication of a distant earthquake. Ho afterwards developed the seismograph record, and found a magnificent signature of a severe disturbance about 2300 miles distant, in a direction not known. Ho describes the record as being us intense os tbit of the Japanese disaster, but. as the, distance is much less the shock is probably also les. severe. The incident is reminiscent of the great earthquake in the north-west of China in December, 1920, when English astronomers, testing a transit telescope-by inverting it over a basin of mercury, witnessed vibrations, and were able to announce a great earthquake before it was otherwise known. ..
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19010, 5 November 1923, Page 9
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146SEISMIC DISTURBANCES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19010, 5 November 1923, Page 9
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