The Recent Earthquakes

Abstract

MAY I ask to be allowed to call attention to some points in relation to the two earthquakes mentioned in your issues of December 9, p. 127 (“Volcanic Eruption in Niua-Fu, Friendly Islands”), and December 16, p. 157 (“Earthquake at Sea”). As regards the first, it is stated that “The whole island has been in a disturbed state for some three months and a half, the dates of the principal disturbances coinciding remarkably with those which are going on in other parts of the world—earthquakes on June 8 and 11, which, I think, are the dates of the first New Zealand outbreaks. … This is, of course, not wonderful; but the final catastrophe here took place on August 31, which, we understand, was the exact date of the recent American earthquake. It was preceded for twenty-four hours by earthquakes, and went on for ten days.”