TABLE OF THERMOMETER & BAROMETER AT KARORI DURING THE EARTHQUAKES.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 341, 8 November 1848, Page 3

TABLE OF THERMOMETER & BAROMETER AT KARORI DURING THE EARTHQUAKES.

As any meteorological observations connected with tlie recent earthquakes cannot fail to prove valuable, we insert the following table of the variations of the thermometer and barometer, kept at Karori, from the 15th to the 31st inst., with remarks on the state of the weather : —

Note. — The height of the position of the barometer is 541 feet above the sea, by Leslie's method : a more careful correction for temperature, &c, would probably give a few feet higher. The necessary corrective for height would make it coincide nearly with the barometer on board the Fly. The only shocks sufficiently strong to do j damage were the four marked*; and the last, although abrupt and sharp, was of very short duration. The shocks have been far more numerous than any recorded elsewhere ; but some would have been scarcely perceptible -but. for the rumbling or detonating sound with which they are preceded, and perhaps our increased vigilance and sensitiveness. It will be perceived (and recollected) that shocks have occurred during every possible stale of the atmosphere : during gales, and,in' very moderate weather ; with a high and low thermometer; with a high' and low barometer; during beautiful summer weather, and during heavy rain, and with the wind from both the prevailing quarters. Though earthquakes may affect and be affected by the general character of the season, no local and temporary inference can, it seems, be deduced from the immediately preceding state of the atmosphere. The reader who is desirous of informing himself upon the subject (it must be confessed but little understood) .should consult Lyell's Geology,' - volsi 1 and 2 ; Darwin's Journal during the voyage of the Beagle (in Murray's Home and Colonial .Library,' vol. 12) ; and Humboldx's Kosmos) — works which are especially referred, to, because they are Jcnown to be in the hands of many persons, here, and are all of high merit/ " * ->-

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