EARTHQUAKES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 115, 8 October 1914, Page 4

EARTHQUAKES.

MMACSB Dff GISBORNB DfiSTRXCJr.

FALL OK CBSaOIBSB,

TUB EARTH. RHNT.

By Telegraph.—Press A»eoe»atie».

_ Gisborhe, ;o«tbber 7. Thtw was a severe earthquake at 6.17 <a It stopped clocks, but did no wrioug damage*.

Ijtter. This morning's earthquake «h severe at Tokomaru. Chimneys wevs throw* down in all directions. Tha Warmers' Ca-oj.'erative Co. the damage to their store at '£3oo, ul dates Bros., their dantege at £3OO. Considerable d:iniag c was also dona ah Waima Stores. Fifty to sixty ohimneyv fell. The hotel tanks burst and bottle* were scattered about the floor. On the hillside there appear to be several gaps. Buchanan's house is untenable. BtUWa chimney oame down through the veiling of the bedroom, narrowly sussing the sleeping occupants; Resident* estimate that the shake lasted , three minutes.

suffered minor dtunage; and fell 1a several station homieqteids. There was cansiidbrable los^of'wsetkeni throughout ,tho township, and a mf big slip on the hill overlooking Gook'a Cove.

Waipiro reports that. it -was the vereet ffhorik known.

In the Waiapu district no Mriwt Aimage was done beyond falletf chimneys in several places. * . Gape Runaway reports a Ibig slip into th« sea, and that new springs have opened up. C. A. T. Jones, known aa Percy Jones, was mustering in a gnOy when a slip, tho result of the earthquake, occurred. His dogs retaried home, and two other men woifeiag la the same country were unable to fiojf any trace of him. It is belioved thai be has been buried in the debris from the big slip which came into the gttlfy. The violence of the earthquake ns manifested by many cracks in the nrfaee of the country. The river is ttnfordable.

White Island does not appear to bo Showing more steam than usual. Tauranga, October 7. There we"e several slight earthquake tremors this morning and a prolonged and decided shake at 6.45 ajn. The vibration was in the direct lint betwees Tauranga and White Island.

FURTHER TKHMOM .j i GROUND OPENED OP. ' Gidborne, Last Night. > Tokotnaru Bay reports that fnrthftr tramorß were felt all day, and two strong shocks at noon. At 2 pjn. at the Farmers' Co-operative store thera Tsa» three feet of merchandise on tha floor, having fallen from tho shelve*. Brick® Iron} £he elumjjey fell thrptigi the oeiling of the office, and th& ager's liouso is untenable. A big cot in the ground) has opened between the Maimers' store and Burden's boardinghouse, a distance of thirty yarda. »

Tha earthquake waa also felt in Wellington, Najpier and New Plytasutb.

BIG SHAKE W ASIA MINOR. '

By cable.—Press Association.—Copyright I' Oonstanthople, October B. An earthquake has taken. place in th* Konia district, Asia Minor.' The vietfana are estimated at 2500.