. Earthquakes and other earth movements. Earthquakes. 232 EARTHQUAKES. In Tokio, which is built partly on a flat plain, partly in valleys denuded from a low tableland, and partly on the spurs of the tableland itself, the distribution of earthquakes is a subject yet requiring attention. Some- times it has happened that persons in one house have been sufficiently alarmed to escape into the open air,. Earthquake of March, la^.l" 1873, () Fig. 34. Subsequent radial disturbance % whilst others, not more than a mile distant, have not been aware that the city had been shaken. Extensi
. Earthquakes and other earth movements. Earthquakes. 232 EARTHQUAKES. In Tokio, which is built partly on a flat plain, partly in valleys denuded from a low tableland, and partly on the spurs of the tableland itself, the distribution of earthquakes is a subject yet requiring attention. Some- times it has happened that persons in one house have been sufficiently alarmed to escape into the open air,. Earthquake of March, la^.l" 1873, () Fig. 34. Subsequent radial disturbance % whilst others, not more than a mile distant, have not been aware that the city had been shaken. Extension of earthquake boundaries.—Natural ob- structions which may be sufficient to retard small earth- quakes may in certain instances not be found sufficient to retard the larger disturbances. Thus the shocks of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Milne, John, 1850-1913. New York, D. Appleton and company
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