CAPE PALLISER FAULT
CENTRE OF FRIDAY’S ’QUAKE. DEEP-SEATED DISTURBANCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “From records and reports now to hand from other centres it is now pos- . sible to determine that the epicentre of the earthquake early last Friday was in the Palliser Bay area,” said the act-ing-Dominion Seismologist, Mr R. C. Hayes, yesterday. “It was deep-seated, possibly 30 miles beneath the earth’s surface, and, probably because of this, was felt as far afield as New Plymouth and Napier to the north and Hokitika and Akaroa to the south. “There has been no reason to alter the assessed strength of 5j on the Mercalli scale so far as Wellington is concerned, but it is possible that, it may have been six on the scale at the epicentre. The report from Cape Pal-J liser is not yet to hand, however., . “The Cape Palliser fault is a souths em extension of the same general fault: line from which the 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake originated,” Mr Hayes added. \ ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE. FELT IN MASTERTON LAST NIGHT A short but sharp earthquake was felt in Masterton at 7.53 last night. The shake was felt in New Plymouth, Hawera, Stratford, and other parts of Taranaki, but no damage had been reported.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430302.2.18
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1943, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
207CAPE PALLISER FAULT Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1943, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in