SEVERE SHOCK

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 184, 10 July 1940, Page 5

SEVERE SHOCK

: «i> EARLY MORNING EARTH TREMOR WHAKATANE DISTRICT SHAKEN Following a scries of earth tremors experienced in this district . of late, the most severe, shock .occurred about 5.30 this morning and was of sufficient to cause small articles to drop from shelves, in at least hall a dozen .instances Avhich have been reported to the BEACON. • | The shock woke hundreds of peo-J pie .and an Ohope resident describes the motion as being of a long steady, swing from East to West.. A rumble accompanied the phenomena which occurred over a series " of three distinct shakes, the lesser ones trailing off until we're hardly perceptible. A Kdp'e.opeo resident states that his gaVe ; a distinct lurch and he thankful to realise that it-'wfts" .the height of the visitation wiiifch* Ivad awakened him. • - White Island, from . which, direction the -"quakes apparently - bailie 1 , was this morning observed to be particularly active, the usual steam plume being dense and • reached an approximate height of seveh or eight hundred feet. There also appeared to be a definite movement in the seat of the usual activity and the centre of the column is rising from a point more to the South.