SEVERE EARTHQUAKE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1938, Page 6

SEVERE EARTHQUAKE

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE DONE IN JAPAN

RAIL & OTHER COMMUNICATIONS CUT TRAIN DERAILED AND HOUSES WRECKED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) TOKIO, November 6. As a result of an earthquake which shook Japan yesterday all communications have been cut off in the coastal provinces north of Tokio, where the shocks were very severe. A goods train was derailed and 50 houses were wrecked in the town of Mito. The earthquake broke the railway linking Ugeno and Iwanuma, at four points and disconnected the telephone over a large area. Considerable damage was done at Fukushima. RECORD IN WELLINGTON HEAVY SHOCKS INDICATED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Complete records of the Japanese earthquakes were obtained on the Seismograph at the Dominion Observatory at Kelburn. The instruments were recording continuously for five hours, the waves coming later by a long arc round the globe as well as directly. The first shock began to trace a record at 8.55 p.m. on Saturday, New Zealand time, this being 5.43 p.m. Japanese time. At 11.2 p.m. (7.50 p.m. Japanese time), before the first record had ceased, a second shock came. These shocks were of almost equal intensity, both being quite vigorous. On Sunday, at 9.6 p.m. New Zealand time, a third shock from the same place was recorded, this being even more vigorous than the two previous shocks. ,