CAUSE OF DISASTER
AN AMERICAN THEORY
• ■(Received-10th February, .noon.) SAN FRANCISCO, .Stli-February. ■ Captain. 'J.V.T. J. See, Government Astronomer at Mare'lsland Naval.Station, says the New Zealand earthquake was caused by the shifting of the ocean bed, an incident in the; formation of an enormous new mountain range in the AVestcrn Pacific, similar to the 'Andes of South America. "Running diagonally from New Zealand almost to Sail' Francisco there is a trough of water about ■four miles dee}). .The pressuro'of water is ' pushing-np'; the' ocean floor iii one direction and leakage 'of water-from the trough. into ..the hot lava below reroutes uteam which shoves the lava up uncleL' the..: North : Island." ■•';'.■ Captain.See added that a Similar condition, existed off Alaska.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 10 February 1931, Page 11
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