DR FARR'S VIEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2719, 25 April 1906, Page 33

DR FARR'S VIEWS.

CHRISTCHURCH, April 21. ! Dr Coleridge Farr, of the Christchurch Observatory, in the course of a conversation with a. reporter, said that the San Francisco earthquake was not of such great dimensions as cither the Indian shock of a few years ago or the Guatemala shock. The fact that a great and populous city^ had been struck made it at>Dear as if the actual occurrence was greater than was really the case. The report submitted to the British Association- for the Advazicement of Science showed that the Alaskan and Andean regions, which included the scene of the disaster, were ranked fourth in regard to numbers amonj the earthquake districts of the world, the Malay Archipelago, New Guinea, and Polynesia coming first, Japan second, and a large portion of Asia (between the north of India and th-e east of Europe) third. In the Alaskan district there was exceedingly deep water off the coast and a high ricl^e of mountains, which would tend to bring about a slipping, and cause severe shocks.