Report on the recent seismic disturbances within Cheviot County in northern Canterbury and the Amuri District of Nelson, New Zealand (November and December, 1901) - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...referable as regards the cause to any of the ascertained lines of fault that have been explored in the district to the west and north-west, the greater force of the earthquake was manifested along a line nearly parallel to the Great Clarence fault, and displayed a more than ordinary violence at different points along this line, as at Mendip Hills Station, in the lower valley of the Leader, and along the eastern part of the Cheviot Estate, between the Jed and Waiau-ua Rivers. 5. That the rapid lessening of the violence of the great shock north of the Conway shows that the earthquakes were not due to fresh rupture along the northern part of the Kaikoura line of fault. 6. That, while the earthquake as a whole progressed in a nearly north to south direction, the resulting earth-rents had no corresponding regularity, but ran east and west or north and south, sometimes evidently controlled by the configuration of the surface, sometimes by deeper-seated causes. 7. That the rents formed at or reaching the surface of the ground were never continuous for more than 5 or 6 chains, more especially when they occurred in the low and alluvial grounds of the district. The statement that earth-rents ran from Mendip Hills Station to the banks of the Conway, opposite Ferniehurst, does not mean that any one rent was continuous along the line or for greater distance than has been stated. 8. That the violence of the great shock south of the Conway gradually lessened as it proceeded in that direction, and was less at Cheviot than at Mendip Hills Station, and that Cheviot suffered more than the district north of the Waiau-ua River simply because of closer settlement and a denser population. 9. That the great falls of rock from the cliffs between the mouth of the Jed and Port Robins...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 145906738X
- ISBN 13 9781459067387
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages40
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