30 JUNE 1906, Page 19

A severe earthquake shock, happily unattended by loss of life,

was felt on Wednesday morning throughout South Wales. In Swansea, where the shock was most violent, hundreds of chimneys collapsed, and the panic, was so general that the schools were closed for the day, and work was suspended at many of the collieries throughout Glamorganshire. The area affected extended from Flintshire to Plymouth, and from Pembrokeshire to Bath, the length of the tremors lasting from two to ten seconds. Curiously enough, no record of the earthquake was given by Professor Milne's seismographic instruments in the Isle of Wight ; but the district in which it occurred is well known to experts as being a veritable network of " faults."