HEAVY EARTHQUAKES.
ALARM IN JAPAN
A startling prediction
(Australian and N.Z. Cable - Association.)
TOKJO
Mar -li .10
'two heavy ea:’tbqua';e si jocks are reported from Atnmi, close to the ;entre of the September earthquake area. They occurred yesterday, ufte.v which a hot
ge\ser which lias been plavi ig leg t’a.'lv since September, dried up.
Last, night cinders covered two miles. ’I lie island of Osbitna is invisible, owing apparent.y to smoke clnjds, believed to it-, due to the explosive eruption of a volcano there.
Dr. Makanium, a leading seismologist, says while the. reports are not officially confirmed, in* believed the recent phenomena. indicates an early renewal of the seismic activities in Tolcio ami the neighborhood, and predicts heavy shocks about equal to those of January 15. Two minor shock's were experienced, at Tokio in the early morning.
People are highly nervous as trie, rt suit of the prediction.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16379, 12 March 1924, Page 3
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