Earthquakes in West Indies

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26227, 10 August 1946, Page 7

Earthquakes in West Indies

WIDESPREAD PANIC CREATED

Tidal Waves Follow Tremors

(Rec. 8 p.m.) PORT AU PRINCE (HAITI), Aug. 9. New Caribbean earthquakes rocked the already shattered north-eastern section of the Dominican Republic and shook Haiti and Puerto Rico, causing panic in the Puerto Rico towns of Agadilla, Mayaguez, and Moca.

The American Embassy at Ciudad Trujillo, the Dominican capital, asked the naval district headquarters at San Juan, Puerto Rico, for doctors and nurses. - Fifteen doctors from Curtacoa have arrived at Ciudad Trujillo to care for the victims of thp new tremors and of the preceding earthquakes and the tidal waves which have hammered the republic at intervals since last Sunday. The number of casualties from the latest shocks has not been determined.

The latest tremors came as thousands of citizens of Ciudad Trujillo were preparing' to attend a giant mass to give thanks that last Sunday’s earthquake was no worse than it was. Stores at Ciudad Trujillo were ordered to close to prevent looting. A plane flying over the Dominican Republic reported that a river between Julia Molina and Conrera had changed its course. A new tidal wave swept through the already wrecked Mantanzas, on Scotch Bay. Thousands of the inhabitants had previously fled to high ground in the interior. The sea receded a quarter of a mile at Puerto Plata, on the north coast, and surged back without inundating the city.