THE SOUTHERN EARTHQUAKES.
[BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATIO.] Wellington, Wednesday. Mr Gordon, Engineer of the Mines Department, returned last night from tho Hanmer Plains district, where he hue been investigating the causes nf the recent destructive earthquake. He states that he found the most damage was caused to buildings erected on land reclaimed from swamp. Fissures from two to six inches wide were visible for a couple of miles in the bed of the Percival Kiver, which passes over an old swamp, and others, said to be two feet wide, are reported to exist on solid ground in the country further west. Mr Gordon judged that the seat of the disturbances must have been somewhere in a triangle between lines drawn from Summer to Cannibal Gorge and Glenroye Station. The effect in tho neighbourhood of Hunmer Springs are eo very slight that there is no danger in proceeding with works, which the Government contemplate placing there. Mr Gordon attributes the earth tremors to chemical action, arising from the upheuvel of a molten dyke through higher strata.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2524, 13 September 1888, Page 2
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175THE SOUTHERN EARTHQUAKES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2524, 13 September 1888, Page 2
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