THE WHAKATANE EARTHQUAKE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2364, 3 December 1908, Page 5

THE WHAKATANE EARTHQUAKE.

A SUCCESSION OF TREMORS. PEOPLE BECOMING ANXIOUS. [Press Association.! AUCKLAND, Dec. 2. The “Star’s 5 ’ 'Whakatane correspondent telegraphs: The succession of earth tremors has continued throughout the night. Each shake was preceded by a loud rumbling noise from the seaward. People are becoming anxious.., as there were' similar occurrences for some time previous to the Tarawera eruption.

TEN SHOCKS IN AN HOUR. y ERUPTION OF SMOKE AND iS AND FROM WHALE ISLAND. AUCKLAND, Doc! 2. A telegram from Whakatane stntcs that further shocks of earthquake wore experienced llasb night, ten ocenring within an hour, ono of which was the most severe since the Tarawera. eruption. Fishermen report that there 'is a largo crevice on the sea v.« ird side of Whale Island, from which a dense yellow cloud, which took a quarter of an hour te dissipate, issued simultaneously with tan earthquake shock. Dry hot sand lis being emitted from tho island. White Island is noticeably quiet.

, A COINCIDENCE,

In connection with the earthquake shocks experienced at Whakatane, and the supposition that they are the result of volcanic activity at sea, Mr. J. T. Stevenson, F.R.G.S., says that the date is coincident with the mocMi’s nearest approach to the earth on the first of the month, and he remarks upon similar coincidences at the time of the great eruption of Mount Pelee in the West Indies, and the eruption of Vesuvius.