Queer Effect of Earthquake
p. 147 · Read in the full issue
The most remarkable feature of the Suva earthquake, in September, was the collapse of a large section of the coral reef along this part of the coast of Viti Levu. It was as if the side of the reef facing the open sea had broken off and slid away into deep water. Then the following tidal wave picked up some of the fragments and threw them back on top of the reef and, in some cases, over into the lagoons. Photo (by Fiji PRO) shows Captain James, Dr. Skiha and Mr.
Wellman out on the reef opposite Suva, examining one of the great cracks which opened in the reef, and some of the reef fragments.