SEISMOGRAPHIC RECORDS.
HAS THE SOUTH ISLAND RECEIVED A TILT? WELLINGTON, this day. Mr Hogben, Inspector-General 'of Schools, who,is m charge of one of the two sensitive seismographical instruments imported by the Government, has examined tiie records taken by the machine. He states that the-, seat of the disturbance appears to have been m Lake Sumner district. The maximum vibrations lasted for two minutes. The shock began without any warning at 7.47£ a.m. The vibration which constituted the earthquake proper proper went on for 9J minutes. Large tremors went on for 71 minutes, and small tremors were ,■ going on all Saturday right up till ten at night, when Mr Hogben cut the record paper. The solid block of stone on which th* seismometer stands was slightly tilted towards the west. Mr Hogben says that if the tilt were general throughout the colony, which'he thinks improbable, it would mean that the West Coast would sink six inches, and that the East (Joast would be raised three inches.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9304, 18 November 1901, Page 3
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165SEISMOGRAPHIC RECORDS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9304, 18 November 1901, Page 3
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