MAY BE METEOR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 700, 28 November 1933, Page 5

MAY BE METEOR

suggested explanation of recent 'quake disturbance Rec. Nov. 27. London, Nov. 26. The Dispatch says that some scientists believe that the fact that Baffin's Bay is 3000 miles outside the earthquake area, combined with the, absepce of confirmatory news, ^ suggests that the world-shaking disturbrance on November 21 was due to a gigantic meteorite, similar to that which struck the Yeniseisk district, in Siberia, in 1908, and destroyed; forests for 30 miles. ^ •; Dr. Kennedy, an .official of the geo- ; logical survey, says he would rather believe that the disturbance was due; to a meteorite than an earthquake, as; the latter would mean that Britain | and other regions which were for-; merly thought to be safe, were liable! to bad earthquakes. \ It was reported last week that aj very severe earthquake had been recorded in various parts of the world, j showing that the whole earth had been shaken. It was stated that the, i ipsfruments "showed that the needles; ' had in some cases moved fully 12' ' inches. It was at first thought the seat of the earthquake was in the. j Far East, hut later it was diagnosedj as Baffin's Bay. i