EARTHQUAKES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIII, Issue 14350, 16 November 1910, Page 5

EARTHQUAKES.

SHOCKS FELT AT SEA, Press Association—By Tel.—Copyrglit. Sl-DNiiV, Xuv L-.-. Tiio missionary schooner Goo Br-.wn. which has arrived from >iie Islands, report that on Sep;e\nbrr F\ w li'- u lu-ar Miva, s!ie exper.viivod vere submarine d:siurb.u;,\j. 'Lho •Ai-auior was [»r;ei-:!y calm, but tL.> vtbratvd irom oiul to (,-nd £ o? j-t-veial nia:t;;i-s, A heavy t-huiuler-st,>rm followed. LA.ST WKF.Iv'S IJI>TF.HUANCE. .L'ho srisuue di>t urbaiu-ei r«-port*-'-d Irom .Mi'touunie i!i.' past- weeii w oic rt'et-i'dcd hy tli • iji>tninn'iii.N .il tlu' Chn>teijU!\-h Ma-noiir tury. 1 Iu- recMids wotl- vU.-vt-iopixl uii Aionday aiVniu.,!,. and Mr H. i-. Skey twiti a "hyaeit<m 'i'fmos" :vpui*it*i' i!it« seismograph had r.-ui-iered an oartiiquake on Nuviunb.-r i>. h at- Gii r Sjiiin (lre<•nuidi tiino, „r approximately p.m. X• ■ '.v ' Xvaoiii.: tnin' f aiul the waves t Miimioiuv<l live nhiuues later. *]' ho maximum nmtu"! oerurrt'd irom t\ven:v-iimr to tucniy-««-vt-u nuuu'e.s past- six. and tir.ljistrumont .-showed a- semi-aituiuh' oi 50 m.l'imetres. That repn-sfiiifd a iv!o eartlnjuako. but as tlio earth waves wore Umi; and tiio tl:s : .ur'' .n was no: Lojnerady notiietl -}■ maximum was iei>ehs'.| at iroi.. .y-oiie ;<> t!:irty-i'our miniKo- ' • imur. .Vn-ii'i r vory noj<-f> snialler shtK-k, ovidrnily imlopeudeiu oi trie lirst. oet wrred at Bhr iMiniii. and its minion persi-t d l• r ahour an h. 'I he rerun! <!tcw-d that ihf dsUirh;-!! ori«: : i:aced or 1-VJO mih-; -'r-.m Chr:-u-}iuirli. A i'ur;i..«r >hork was r--i-orded on Novenihei > !(i. ;k. iii.!-) Orei'invich tiir.c, huf i[ \ V ;w a VvVy I sma!! one. with n M-nti-alr : :;id" of o::iV I aliout two millimetres. ~ I