SUBMARINE EARTHQAKE.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 45, 12 November 1886, Page 2

SUBMARINE EARTHQAKE.

The captain of the -learner Thtwmly. l*elonging to the Houstou line.Jwnt trio the owners of that v**sel, note* a strange expert* nee on Ins last voyago from Liverpool to Montevideo. ' Ou Thursday. July 1, at p.m„ the ship, which at the time was in lat. 0.50. long. 29.34 YV„ was suddenly and violently sliaken and bumped, tho shaking being accompanied hy a loud, rumbling, metallic kind of noise The first, impression was tiiat the ship won tearing the bottom out over hard rock, hut knowing there was nothing in tin' neighbour!mod she could toucii. save St. Paul a Rocks, and as they could not aee land, th* captain concluded the machinery wa.- guing to rae*. s. A report received from the euguit room. however, stated tUt tiierv vT*. nothing wrong there. The engineer ha l slowed down in-tantlv, under the impression that ntitetiun - had g „ wrong. The

well all true. Tlie sliisk lasted almiit n minute, no <li-turbanee wa • visible on tins water. About eight minutes after llyj first shook, a sisotnl, not a mu- no -«rere, stopped tin- sliip, which Tii the meantime had fawn going slowly. .Subsequuatly they experienced a third shock a slight one. The lead indicated i»0 fathoms, with no bottom. Being now satisfied that the si locks were caused by some aubniiirinu di.s turbuuce, the captain prouended on his course. After steaming about 1C minutes, he experienced a fourth shuck, only inferior to tlie first in severity and duration. After this all was quiet. 1 hiring thn shock the compass cards were much agitated.