Earthquake death
p. 28 · Read in the full issue
in New Hebrides
A man was killed, a child in jured and Santo’s wharf was badly damaged in an earth quake which struck the New Hebrides early on the morning of October 28. Several serious tremors followed the ’quake which was strength 7.4 on the Richter scale, but there was no panic and the people went calmly about the job of clean ing up. .
The one fatality was that of a fisherman crushed by a boulder at Shark Bay outside the town.
A small wharf disappeared, a bridge was wrecked, buildings and machinery at Palekula fishery were badly damaged and many houses and their contents were damaged. Shops lost thousands of dollars-worth of goods.