EARTHQUAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 47, 9 March 1901, Page 4

EARTHQUAKE.

Me. Gkobgb Eogben, who sa member of the Permanent Onamittea of the International Seism: bgical Society, has just rtceivad the first f Jurmonthiy report fiom the central earthqaake-obterviag station at fltrasbnrg, Germsay, op to and including the report for Oc'ober last yea*. This contains particulars of a'l the earth quake shocks recorded by Ihe delicate instruments at the Strssfcu'g Observatory and other statioes from which records havß Lean received Mr. Hoghca informs as that be has bean able to iden'ify three of. the shocks in Octobrr last with the phitt J graphic tracings tak»n bp the instrument under his charge. Moat interesting is the eeitmogram, aa it is called, of a Tory consider ibie earthquake in Alaska on the 10° h October, 1900, the vibration* of which last-id far three or lour boars, sad Itfn ihtir mirk on the teismograph at Victoria (B.O) at Taionto, atd at all the principal Eoropeau stations, une of the other shock?, he pr ibafily c>uif>a from a ipot beneath the Pacific, which cmnot be ex>ctly d fined nntil the other retnrns are io. Neverthales' it raises the hope that the work of stations surrounding the Pacific Ocean may result, at n* distant date, in the (iis- J co*ery of the dangerous earthqaake centre* beneath that ocean, and so enable the scientists io gi*e warning to the promoter* of the Pucfic cable'*to avoid dangers similar to tboie which, in all probability, were the cause of the failare of the first Atlantic cable —N.Z. Knu>.