SEISMIC DISTURBANCE.
TRANSFORMATION OF COAST LINES.
The seismic disturbance reported from Melbourne at the end of last month as having probably originated in the Tesnuan Sea, 400 miles or there, abouts from Hobart, receives partial confirmation in a report from Moggie Islands, S.S.W. of Stewart Island (says the- "Bluff Press”). The master of „a cutter which had just returned 1 from a omiso in/ the neighborhood, says that the coast linos of the island, as well as the coast line of the mainland of SteAVarb Island, between Weather Point and Doughboy Bay, have undergone complete transformation. The cliffs, Avith their deeply indented caverns, have entirely disappeared; and in their place’ is a sloping face loading down to the soa level, or possibly deeper. One of the two Moggie boat harbors lias boon badly shaken, but the captain had not the means of ascertaining the effect the disturbance had on its shelters. At . Weather Point and Doughboy'Bay the old landmarks have disappeared, or else altered beyond recognition. The disturbance would seem to have caught this particular edge of the island without having made itsolf felt in any of the other parts.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2745, 25 February 1910, Page 6
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190SEISMIC DISTURBANCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2745, 25 February 1910, Page 6
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