EARTHQUAKES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 415, 26 January 1909, Page 5

EARTHQUAKES.

BIG SUBMARINE SHAKE SOMEWHERE. , : j PANIC AT RECCIO. ' " /MORE SHOCKSAT MESSINA., . '■■ ..(pli'ErjEpBAFn—r.KESS ASSOCIATION—COI7BIG3T.) > '■;;.-' ';•_-'.' Rome, January 24. > .Several:violent earthquake shocks,, with '.' rumblings, at Reggie,: caused ', tlio collapse' of walls, and created. a panic. '•■ Another disturbance of an undulating char- '■■ acterratiMPSsiua greatly'ajarmed the people. ' European, (seismographs indicate an un- ' known earthquake, possibly submarine, equal m'forco to that which recently occurred in . Southern Italy;' - ■'-'•/'/ .; ■>': ' ~[\ ''the:hjstpfy: pf beqgio, f Eeggio is a very ol(I Greek town, built rjght .opposite Messina, and exactly nine miles away, under the steep, broken hills on . the Italian sMe,. It is/a.walled city, with towers built '; around it, and several: suburbs ontside them, -. Tlio-old 1 town of Eeggio (says the-"Sydney Morning Herald") wias . almost entirely destroyed in 1783—as the new one has been in 1908, and, if one may judge by the history of men, "as tho one. which ..replaces it will,be , somewhere, in- some future century,. After, the last eartlujuaka it; was .rebuilt, a fine ..city,. ,' with. handsome wide streets »pu good houses. It. had. a- cathedral and. ten churches,; seven • convents, and .two 1 hop.sitals,,,. Stockings'and gloves were made in Eeggio in a very curious manner. Certain shell-fish were, collected, and fropj tlireads'made out of these the mar terial is-made.- .- There; was an archbishop atßeggip, and a high .civil and criminal Court, ~ Tlie history .of'the city began 2600 years ago. After it grew great, _Dionysias, of Syracuse, besieged it, and - carried' off most of its people; bodily for. slaves. \ Since then the Bohi ans . took- it. It was "improved",.by.'Julius, Caesar. Then the Goths took it; and then' the Normans, and then the King of Naples, and then Barr barbssa. Who burned it,'and Mnstapha Easha, who burned it If years after. In 1783 it was utterly'destroyed by earthquakes. ■■ ; MR,;. STEVENSON'SI PREDICTIONS/ ! : , (nr'TELECKArH—rItESS ASSOCIATION.) .:.'■'■"'■ ~' : AMQkland, January 25. ' The cabled' news of tbe recurrence :of earthquakes in ' Southern. Italy' . completely bears/out/thepredictions of Mr. J,.T.;,Steyensori, F,R:A.S.,.of Auckland, 'that between ■January. 20-and:.January 25 'further shocks would occur. 'Mi-'. Stevenson specially. men/ tioned Italy, and Messina as the locality. He, plso predicted a great yojeanio upheaval at Savaii during the period named, a"d 3 day. or tyro ago: news was cabled from Manila of the great. eruption 'of: Abayon, on the. island of Luzon, / Interviewed to-night,, Mr, Stevenson, said that ho'was fujlyexpepting. to hear, that the Savaii volcano is in a great state of activity .at about the prpseni time. Since his ■ predictions, .also," there had been, a .great earthquake, in-Smyrna, which, is practically jniho same latitude as Italy/: This also occurred within' the date ho gave., ;Askod;if he thought the earthquakes np\y reported were likely to be ; the last, Mr. Stevenson said:', : .'. "There will: be more, but they arc. not likely to .be so' heavy,' I think there will .be' anqther, period of earthquake shocks in February, 1 .commencing, 'roughly speaking, about Februar^.:l7;;/and'. 'ending' about/February 23. J.think Italy will again be affected then, though in' the. particular district-of Reagip of course the main damage has already been done. 'Otherwise,'. I believe the shocks will bo about,, equivalent 'in' intensity to.; those latest,"/ Mr,". Stevenson .added that he ..did not think' Aticklarid/or Now Zealand would-: b? affected to : any great: extent .; by : the carthquakps lie predicts' for next month, though slight'shocks' might'-", be felt .here.' Possibly an intermediate period might.occur in tho first ".week of February,, when.-: thp /shocks: to Northern. Italy, as 'well as to Messina. ' . '■■'.. '-- '-cf ■ .-;' '';./■ SHOCK AT FEILDING: ''"/ V.(BT : .TELEa.tt4Fa-4-PI|ESS' ASSOCIATION.) : / Vi : '/yv/.,:,' ; v Fel!dlng; : January,2s.:: - '■■:,: A slight earthquake' shock ; was;: felt ■'•hero : at three: minutes.'past eight '• o'clock';'/last. , : night'. ■;'.-'■: "":•'.■"-. - ,'i ,-..,/;. ~:/ ■■/ '//J.//' ■'■