MURCHISON AREA.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1930, Page 3

MURCHISON AREA.

RAISED BY THE EARTHQUAKE.

WESTPORT, January 12.

A resident from Alurcmson lias inlonneu your correspondent that surveys of the Aiurehison township have made by three different surveyors, atid each engineer finds that the i/ovvn of Murchison has been raised eig/nt feet pb-ove- its former levei, yvjiich. of course, is proof that the disturbance at the seat of the late earthquake must have been somewhat near, or under Murchison itself.

At White’s Creek, 13 miles below Murchison side of the fault has been raised 16 feet from the southern portion. This is also proof that the earthquake nuust have used its greatest force on the northern side of the great fault, which runs from Nelson down the (.'oast towards the Otira Range. We may rest assured that the ~'jngthy ’Cheviot disturbances some years ago, the Arthur’s Pass upheaval, and then the great earthquake of June 17th, proves that the bowels of- the earth have been in action on the eastern side of this great fault. I understand that Messrs Thomas and Hayes, two school teachers at Murchison, have procured photographs of the various earth movements and damage caused by the earthquake in the Upper Tluller portion of the district. They have had the photograph- converted into lnhtern slides, and intend giving exhibitions of those at an early date at the schools in, this and other districts. as an education in seismology to the present-day scholars The slides will, no doubt, be of interest also to the University students at Otago. 'Canterbury, Wellington and Auckland.