THE EARTHQUAKE
DAMAGE AT EKETAHUNA. MOST CHIMNEYS AFFECTED. TOTAL DAMAGE £ 10,000. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) EKETAHUNA, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Borough Council last night the .Mayor stated that 90 per cent of the chimneys in this district were affected by the earthquake, as against 60 per cent in Pahiatua. The total damage is now estimated at £IO,OOO. The council decided to apply to the Public Works Department for an engineer lo inspect all the brick building immediately.
UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENON. EPICENTRE OF EARTHQUAKE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Reports received by the Government Seismologist, Dr. Adams, now enable him to definitely place' the epicentre of last week’s earthquake about 50 miles out lo sea south-east of the area where it was most strongly felt. It may seem curious that Ihe worst effects of the earthquake were felt not. near the epicentre, but over an area some distance from it, but such lias been the case in many other earthquakes and is a phenomenon seismologists arc iniabzle to explain. The imlicalions point lo the shake being of deep-sea led origin, perhaps ten miles below Ihe surface.
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Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19203, 13 March 1934, Page 6
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