EARTHQUAKES.
Hardly a day now passes but a seismic disturbance is reported from one part of the' Dominion or another. People take the tremors with a resignation which approaches philosophy. Nobody dreams that the disturbances are of a serious character. Few, indeed, stop to think of either the cause or the effect. And yet there are geologists in this coun" try who view with more or less apprehension the prospects of a calamity at no distant date. Whether the phenomena be caused by the generation of steam, or the subsidence of rocks, or other influences, the fact remains that at given periods there are convulsions of Naturo which produce dire results. The minor shocks which have been experienced during the last month or two are held by. some to be a security against serious upheaval. Others, however, see in them the portend of a disastrous eruption. Time alone can tell. ;
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 30 March 1911, Page 4
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150EARTHQUAKES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 30 March 1911, Page 4
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