THE CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE MR. GORDON'S REPORT.
Wellington, Sept. 12. Mr Gordon, engineer of the Mines Department; returned lust night from the Hanmer Plains district, where he has boon investigating the causes of the recent destructive earthquake. He states that he found th° most damage had been caused to buildings erected on land reclaimed from the swamp. Fissures from two to six inches wide were visible for a couple of miles in the bed of the Percival River which passes over an old swamp, and others said to be two feet wide are reported to exist on the solid ground in the country further west. Mr Gordon judged that the seat of the disturbances must have been somewhere in the triangle between lines drawn from Stunner to Cannibal Gorge and Glenroye station. The effect in the neighbourhood of Hanmer Springs are so very slight that there is no danger in proceeding with the works which the Government contemplate placing there. Mr Gordon attributes the earth tremours to chemical action arising from the upheaval of a molten dyke through fche higher atiatu.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 299, 15 September 1888, Page 6
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180THE CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE MR. GORDON'S REPORT. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 299, 15 September 1888, Page 6
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