EARTH TREMORS
SLIGHT SHOCKS IN SOUTH ISLAND. RECORDED AT DOMINION OBSERVATORY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The Dominion Observatory reported today that slight earthquakes in the South Island were recorded on the seismograph late last night and early this morning. The first was a very small shock, recorded in Westport and neighbouring districts, but not widely felt. The second, at 3.35 a.m., was heavier, the centre being south-west of Milford and slightly out to sea. It is stated to be the after-shock of a heavy earthquake .experienced in the South Island on December 17, and was felt in Ranfurly, Naseby, Balclutha, Timaru and Jackson’s Bay. Neither earthquake was felt in Wellington.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 8
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