EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTH.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16485, 2 May 1925, Page 5

EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTH.

47 SHOCKS COUNTED. SEVERE DISTURBANCES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. A message from Fl oura states that the earthquake la. ening shook down chirhneys of set,. 1 residences, while near the Clarenc Bridge trees have been uprooted and cracks formed in the road from 2in to Sin wide. Slips caused a blockage of traffic on the Puhipuhi road. Telephone communication with Christchurch was interrupted. At Kekerangu, half way between Kaikoura and Blenheim, tremors have been experienced all day, 47 having being recorded up to a very late hour to-night, and residents are camping out in the open. At Woodbank station the family of the owner is bivouacked in the drive, persistent tremors having forced them to the conclusion tliat it is a safer spot than their house. AN UNEASY NIGHT. BLENHEIM, Saturday. Round about Kaikoura and in the vicinity of the Clarence River Bridge residents had an uneasy pight on Thursday during the series of earthquake shocks, which were more severe than those in the Blenheim district. It is said that 43 shocks were counted on Thursday night, the worst at 11.30. Shakes were felt at intervals also throughout yesterday, and there were two shocks last night. Reports from Clarence state that chimneys are down in all directions. The opinion of residents is that the disturbance centred in the ocean off the coast, a mile south of Clarence. A crack opened along the coast road, and the land on the seaward side of the crack appears to have subsided. Telephones aro’und Clarence Bridge are out of order.