Kadavu Earthquake Takes
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Slice From Mountain
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, March 15.
AN earthquake felt at Suva and other parts of Fiji on February 13 is be lieved to have been responsible for a severe knocking-about suffered by Namukalevu (Mount Washington), the 2,750 ft. peak at the western end of Kadavu.
On March 8, Captain H. M. Frewen, of the vessel Melanesia, reported that the configuration of the mountain had been greatly altered by an avalanche which had carved out a sizable gully on the north-western side, while much of the heavy forest covering of the mountain had been stripped off.
Captain Frewen attributed the changes to recent hurricanes, but the Suva Meteorological Office, while not contra dicting this theory, has pointed out that reports from New Zealand and other seismological observatories throughout the world show that the February earthquake was centred close to Kadavu, an area where deep-sea earthquakes are not un common.