BIG EARTHQUAKE RECORD
UNUSUAL FORM OF SUB-, OCEANIC FAULTING. (Received October 15, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 15. An earthquake, the biggest ever recorded by the Riverview College seismographs, occurred last, night shortly after 6 o'clock. It is calculated that the occurrence was in the ocean bed forty miles south-south-east of the Island of Aneityum, and ninety miles south-south-east of Canna,' both in the New Hebrides. The record indicates a quite unusual form of sub-oceanic faulting.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 October 1913, Page 5
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75BIG EARTHQUAKE RECORD Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 October 1913, Page 5
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