THE TAUPO TREMORS.
SUBSIDENCE OF A BEACH. WELLINGTON. Sept. 4. For several weeks past the long series of earthquakes in the Taupo district has been decreasing in severity, though there have been occasional recoveries of vigour. One of theso recoveries has occurred iti the last few days, and is described in a message from Tokaanu. Professor E. Marsdon, who has just returned from a short visit to the district, states that the most important evidence he saw was a wholesale subsidence of a largo block of land which forms the peninsula between Whakaipo Bay and Whangamata Bay, on the north shore of the lake. This peninsula is edged by steep cliffs, which used to have beaches at the foot, but the whole area, measuring about a mile and a-quarter wide and two miles long, has dropped about four and a-liaif feet, so that the benches are submerged. The drop tapers out along the adjacent shores, and its inland boundary is also indistinct. The subsidence extends northward in diminishing extent for several miles. Great quantities of material, amounting to thousands of tons, have fallen off the eastern face of the peninsula into the lake.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2477, 7 September 1922, Page 4
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193THE TAUPO TREMORS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2477, 7 September 1922, Page 4
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