Approaching Earthquakes.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 118, 5 September 1885, Page 3

Approaching Earthquakes.

The earthquake shocks which were felt last week over a wide area in Yorkshire remind us that an authority on the subject of those phenomena, M. Delaunay, of Paris, is of opinion thab noxt year will see the re cccurrenceof upheavals of theearth's crust in an intensified form. M. Delaunay is a prophet of evil, but unfortunately all his prophecies have hitherto come true. His specialty is earthquakes, and he predicts them only too surely. In 1877 he announced that that yea; would not conclude without violent disturbances of the earth, and, as a matter of fact, two frightful catas trophes on the coasts of South Ameria followed. In 1883 M. Delaunay again pointed to approaching earthquakes, and soon aftei the volcanic eruptions in the Indian Aichipelago occurred, by which thousands of human beings lost their lives, and hundreds of square miles of terra firma were engulfed by the sea. Towards the end of last year M, Delaunay once more raised his warning voice, and the earthquakes in Spain proved how well founded were his warnings, Quite recently he has prophesied very severe volcanic disturbances for 1586.^ Haying acquired a well-merited notoriety in foretelling earthquakes, some weight ought to be attached to M. Delaunay's utterances. He affirms that next year these natural phenomena will be of a very intense character, and that they will show themselves either when the earth is under the direct influence of a planet of the first rank, such as Jupiter, or under that of a group of f asteroids, or at a time when sun and moon are nearest to our planet at the same time.' -" Iron."

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