A TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE.

Wairarapa Age, 17 February 1927, Page 3

A TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE.

PANIC IN JUGO-SLAVIA. THOUSANDS OF HOUSES COLLAPSE. VIENNA, February 15. The Jugo-Slavian earthquake devastated the whole of southern Herzegovina, Bosnia, and Dalmatia. The panicstricken population is camping in the fields, fearing a recurrence of shocks. Several thousands of houses collapsed. The damage is estimated at a hundred million dinars. An hotel at Ragusa was demolished, with many deaths.— (A. and N.Z.I. (The area affected by the disturbance roughly forms a triangle with Sarajevo fit its apex. Spalato, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. provides the most northerly point of the shock, while the southerly point, distant about a hundred miles, in Ragusa, another large coastal town. Stolac and Mostar, on the lower side of the triangle, are situated in Jugo-Slavia, known in pre-war days at Herzegovina. The whole area affected is fairly thickly populated, the towns mentioned being the main centres of population- Scrajevo is the fortified town in the Balkans in which the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were murdered in 1914, causing the conflagration which eventually ended in the Great War. This particular locality has’ been very subject to earthquake shocks in the past, though not so much in recent years, and the loss of life on occasions has been extensive.).