EARTH TREMOR

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 6 February 1923, Page 5

EARTH TREMOR

FIVE HOURS’ VIBRATION. Pei Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, this day. Local seismograph records show that there was a nearthquake in the Pacific early on Sunday morning of great violence. The earth’s crust vibrated for five hours and the first surface wave, encircling the globe, passed Melbourne again some three hours later. SYDNEY, Feb. 5 The seismograph at Riverview recorded the earthquake mentioned in yesterday’s American cables. The places of origin were the Aleutian islands.—A. and N.Z. Cable. NEW YORK, Feb. 5. Further reports in regard to yesterday’s earth disturbances strengthen the belief that the greatest upheaval occurred in the bed of the Pacific. Honolulu dispatches state that Silo suffered the greatest damage, probably amounting to 1,500,000 dollars. Wharves and railway bridges were destroyed, and several large liners suffered. Small damage at Pago Pago (Samoa) is reported, and no shock was felt at British Samoa. The United StatesGuam cablq was broken but it is not believed that Guam suffered. The Hawaiian seismograph registered further shocks, estimated at miles distant.—A. and N.Z. Cable.