Historical Seismograms - Evidence from the AD 2000 Izu Islands ...

Seismograms Before 1963 in the South- West Pacific 461the station was destroyed by fire. The previous year’s records are believed to havebeen recovered after the fire, but lost in shipment. It is therefore just possible thatthey still exist, perhaps in the U.S.A., but have not been identified. Preliminaryreadings had been sent to Wellington by radio, and have been published. Afterinterpretation in Wellington, the rest of the records were sent to Lamont Observatoryfor storage. The Wellington archive contains a file of full-sized copies of thelong-period records of teleseisms in 1961 January and 1961 August.6.2. Adklie LandSome confusion exists with respect to recording in French Antarctica before 1955.In 1950 the privately organized Missions Paul-Emile Victor set up a base on a smallisland off the coast near Pointe Gkologie. It operated for three seasons, and wasthen evacuated until 1955, when it was re-occupied. Earthquake recording beganin 1951 March, apparently with a short-period vertical seismometer. Details of theequipment and of the fate of the records are now uncertain. If they still exist theyare presumably in France.The base at Dumont d’Urville (DRV) was established for the International GeophysicalYear, and operated three short-period APX instruments between 1957April 14 and 1962 December 12. The Institut de Physique du Globe in Strasbourghas records of 236 shocks made during this period. All are in good condition.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI wish to thank the many observatories who have answered enquiries, especiallythose who fruitfully re-directed the course of my search. In particular I must instanceDr. Robin Adams of the International Seismological Centre, M. R. Louatof ORSTOM, Noumka, and those members of the staff of the Lamont-DohertyObservatory who unearthed correspondence containing details of operations in Fiji,incidentally throwing light on obscure parts of the Pacific.REFERENCESAngenheister, G. (1922). List of the most important earthquakes registered at the Observatory,Apia, Samoa, from 1913 to 1920, Nachr. Ges. Wissensch. Gottingen, Math-phys.Klasse pp 1-3.Eiby, G. A. (1985). Documenting New Zealand earthquakes, this volume.Smith, W. D. (1981). A short history of New Zealand seismograph stations, N. 2. Dept.of Scientific and Industrial Research, Geophysics Division Report 171, 27 pp.Young, R. M., J. H. Ansell, and M. A. Hurst (1984). New Zealand’s first seismograph:the Hector seismograph 1884-1902, J . Roy. SOC. N. Z., 14, 159-173.