NEW EARTHQUAKES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 219, 16 September 1943, Page 5

NEW EARTHQUAKES

IN DIRECTION OF JAPAN Recd. 6 p.m. New York, Sept. 14. A series of earthquake tremors occurring intermittently since midnight in the general direction of Japan is reported by the seismologist at Fordham University. A s-evere shock, estimated to be 7300 miles distant, occurred at 3.37 a.m. The seismoalso showed a severe shock at 10.20 p.m. yesterday about 8400 miles distant and in th*e direction of Burma. Shocks are still continuing. At 9 a.m. to-day Weston College, Massachusetts, seismograph recorded a destructive earthquake at 10.35 p.m. yesterday and at 3.49 a.m. to-day. The epicentre was near the Solomons or the New Hebrides. The earthquakes continued for three or four hours.

From records made on the seismographs at the Dominion Observatory on Tuesday it is quite obvious that there was very vigorous seismological activity somewhere —most probably in the Pacific. During the afternoon at least live earthquakes were recorded, three of them being very big ones. There was a further one. not so big, recorded on Tuesday night. The tnrec major shocks took place just after 2 p.m., just before 4 p.m., and and at 7.20 p.m. All were apparently in the

same locality, about 1500 from New Zealand in some northerly direction. They might have been in the neighbourhood of Fiji or New Caledonia, but quite possibly they may have occurrea beneath the sea somewhere in the Pacific as has often been the case with previous big shakes in that direction.- -Evening Post.