EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 61, 2 May 1925, Page 5

EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS

forty-seven at kaikoura, FAMILY CAMP IN THE OPEN. Per Press Association. Christchurch, May 1A Kaikoura message states that the caitbquake. la.st evening shook down chimneys at several residences, while near the Clarence bridge trees have been uprooted and cracks formed in the road fiom two to eight inches wide.

Slips caused a blockage of traffic'on the Pulii Pnhi Road. Telephone communication with Christchurch was interrupted at Kekerangu, which is halfway between Kaikoura and Blenheim.

The tremors have been experienced all day, forty-seven being recorded up till a very late hour to-night, and residents are camping out in the open. At Woodbank station the family of the owner are bivouaced in the drive -persistent Demons having forced them to the conclusion that it is a safer spot than the house. RESIDENTS ALARMED AT NIGHT. CHIMNEYS SHAKEN DOWN. LAND SUBSIDENCE. Blenheim, May 2. Round about Kaikoura and in the vicinity of the Clarence River bridge, the residents bad an uneasy night on Thursday, during a series of earthquake shocks which were mor e severe there- than in the-Blenheim district. It i s said that forty-three shockswere counted on Thursday night, the worst at 11.30.

Shakes were felt at intervals also throughout yesterday and two shocks last night;

Reports from the Clarence state that chimneys are down in all directions.

It is the opinion of residents that the disturbance was centred in the ocean off the coast.

A mile -south of the Clarence a crack opened along the coast road and the land on the seaward -side of the crack appears to have subsided. The telephones around Clarence bridge are out of order.

The earthquake was also felt- by several Stratford residents who state ther© was a. shock about 10.35 p.m. This was not at ail severe, and no damage wais done.