AN EARTHQUAKE

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1930, Page 5

AN EARTHQUAKE

JAPANESE DISASTER. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. [United Press Association.—By Electric Teleg raph.—Copyright.J TOKYO, November 25. There are two hundred people dead as the' result of to-day’s earthquake at Japan. The City of Mishima has suffered the heaviest. Twenty were killed when a bridge collapsed at Nogaoka. BIG CITIES ROCKED. TOKYO, November 25. The cities of Tokio and Yokohama were rocked by an exceedingly severe earthquake at four o’clock tins (Tuesday) .morning. There lias been no damage done here at Tokyo. Incoming reports say that the earthquake was centred oil the ldzu Peninsula, where the villages were devastated.

The official estimates vary from one hundred and fifty to nine hundred casualties.

Communication is interrupted

The foreigners are reported safe in Miyartoshita-Hakone district, where landslides have occurred, and have suspended tlie electric car lines and the motor services.

Many houses have collapsed at Misliima, ' *

Much damage has been done at Odawara.

The quake lasted for thirty minutes. Reports from Atami state that houses there collapsed, and five students were buried.

Two regiments at Mishima are engaged in the work of rescuing and maintaining order.

RECORDED AT WELLINGTON

WELLINGTON, Nov. 27

A verv good record of the Jamnese earthquake was obtained at Kelburn Observatory. In .point of magnitude the shake is no way comparable to the big one of 1923, of which also a particularly good record wap obtained at Kclburn.