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THE first seismological bulletin has been received from the acting director of the Meteorological Office at Suva (Dr. W. Ralph Dyer). At this station a Milne-Shaw horizontal seismograph has been set up to register north-south movements, the co-ordinates of the station being latitude 18° 08' 56" south, longitude 178° 27' 26" east. The first earthquake to berecorded officially at this station occurred on July 31, 1943. Thirty earthquakes were registered in August, and upto September 21 twenty-two earthquakes were registered during September. On September 21 the seismograph was temporarily out of action owing to delays in the supply of photographic paper. The initiation of this new station is warmly welcomed. The attention of the Seismological Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to this matter has been mentioned previously in the columns of NATURE, and the new station is also receiving assistance from the Dominion Observatory at Wellington, New Zealand. The Fiji Seismological Station is in an excellent position for the recording of the frequent earthquakes and tremors, a large number of which are submarine, in that Pacific region.
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Earthquakes Registered at Fiji. Nature 153, 522 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153522a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153522a0