Levuka Has Earthquakes
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SUVA, July 17, ON July 8, about 6.30 p.m., Suva felt a very slight earth tremor, which was just sufficient to make hanging lights sway.
A week later agitated complaints started to arrive from Levuka. At 6.30 p.m. on July 8, Levuka had had what was almost an earthquake and had gone on having tremors, to a total of five, for three days. Yet press and radio had not done anything about it, and Levuka’s aggrieved tone im plied that, as usual, Suva would not notice anything of the sort unless it happened to demolish the Govern ment Buildings.
Levuka’s best shake was sufficient to rock buildings, move furniture and jolt a studious woman out of her chair.
Out to sea from Levuka, a fishing launch, in an absolutely flat calm, suddenly found itself down in a deep trough, until it was pushed up again with equal suddenness.
The reports suggest a submarine disturbance somewhere off the coast of Ovalau. Similar upheavals ocassionally occur off Kadavu where, about two years ago, an earthquake caused big landslips in the Mount Washington area.