QUAKY WELLINGTON. A WARNING AGAINST BRICK BUILDINGS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 299, 15 September 1888, Page 5

QUAKY WELLINGTON. A WARNING AGAINST BRICK BUILDINGS.

Wki.mmjtojn, tSept. 13. Somk inteic-ling lact^ bearing on letonfc earthquakes woo brought out at a meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society la^t night. Mr Maskell, Piesiclent of tho Society, lead an essay on the .*>y.stems ot architecture adopted in Wellington, in which ho in-ihtod upon the danger of the doctiiue nun enteilained Chat theie i^ lest danger from uarLliquaUe^ at the present tiiiie than ot yore, and ])ouited out various faults in eon^t<i action which tend to weaken the resistance to eaithquuke shocks- Ti)C mod .sensational htatemunt? of the evening, huwevor, were matie b> Mi A. Ivay. assistant geolo^i^t. Thit? gentleman insisted that though Wellington did not. Miller by the late oonvnUion, it 1^ on the line ot earth fiMCtiuc iv whi> h the dieturbaiices oiiginai.ed. The tault was tiaceable Irom Tiuakoi i Uoad to (.'ook .Strait, and rcappeaicd in the South Is-l.'iud al Lake (j l'dbsmero on the Flaxbourne estate, \v hence it could bo iol lowed for DO ini^ acioss countiy to Hannier Plains, passing within one and a-halt niilec of the lebidence ut Low, which MiHoved so -enously in the late tremoio in the HannuM' dibtriet. The down-throw or the iault w,v about 10,000 feet, but iv the vicinilx ot \\ el ington it was not more than 500 toet. This- displacement had taken place \\ (bluu compaiulhely modem ume". geologic .ill> M)eakiii'j. Mo\ement^ had been eoiiiii oil toi piohabl,\ the last 50(1,000 jear-. and weie not likely to cea--e foi perhaps another 500,000 j ear^.