TWO EARTHQUAKES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1943, Page 3

TWO EARTHQUAKES

LOCATED IN OR NEAR JAPAN. ONE DESCRIBED AS VERY SEVERE. NEW YORK, June 13. Fordham University recorded two earthquakes at 1.24 a.m. and 4.50 a.m. today, about 6800 miles from New York. They are believed to have been in Japan. One disturbance was very severe. Father Lynch, the Fordham seismologist, believes that the earthquakes occurred on the mainland of Japan. The first earthquake moved the Fordham seismograph several inches, indicating a disturbance of major proportions. about half as severe as that which killed 100,004 and ravaged Tokio and Yokohama in 1923. The seismologist said that the latest earthquakes are the most severe in Japan since 1933, when an off-shore earthquake caused a disastrous tidal wave. Father Lynch, in a speech last January, predicted that Japan would experience a severe earthquake in about a year. He based his prediction on the law of probability, stating that 10 years had elapsed since Japan’s last major earthquakes.

Both of these earthquakes were recorded on the seismograph at the Dominion Observatory, Kelburn. The first, which was a heavy one and more than 5000 miles from New Zealand, which would place it a little south of Japan, was recorded at 5 p.m. on Sunday, and the second, a similar distance away, between 8 and 9 p.m. on Sunday.