The Canterbury Earthquake.
MR GORDON'S REPORT,
(FBOM OTTE OWN COEBESPONDENT.)
Wellington, Last night.
Mr Gordon, Engineer of the Mines Department, has returned from the Hauraer Plains district, where he has been investigating the causes of the recent destructive earthquake. He states that he found the most damage had been caused to buildings erected on land reclaimed from the swamp. Fissures from two to six inches wide were visible for a couple of miles in the bed of the Fercival .River, which passes over an old swamp, and others said to be two feet wide are reported co exist on the solid ground in the country further west. Mr Gordon judged that the seat of the disturbances must hare been somewhere in the triangle between lines drawn from Sumner to Cannibal Gorge and Glenroye Station. The effects in the neighborhood of Hanmer Springs are so very slight that there is no danger in proceeding with the works which the Government contemplate plac ing there. Mr Gordon attribates the earth tremors to chemical action arising from the upheaval of a molten dyke through the higher strata.
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Thames Star, Volume XX, Issue 4715, 13 September 1888, Page 2
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