. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. e to the than the twenty-five-miles-to-the-inch map: thus putting the position of theepicentrum between three and four miles E. of the AmuriPass, or fourteen miles of Glynn Wye. Taking all these different methods into consideration, Iconclude that the epicentrum was not of an elongated form,but more or less circular, with a radius of perhaps five miles,and the centre a little east of Amuri Pass and about sixteenmiles from Glynn Wye. Depth of the we consider that the earthquake-wave spread for adistance of three

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. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. e to the than the twenty-five-miles-to-the-inch map: thus putting the position of theepicentrum between three and four miles E. of the AmuriPass, or fourteen miles of Glynn Wye. Taking all these different methods into consideration, Iconclude that the epicentrum was not of an elongated form,but more or less circular, with a radius of perhaps five miles,and the centre a little east of Amuri Pass and about sixteenmiles from Glynn Wye. Depth of the we consider that the earthquake-wave spread for adistance of three hundred miles from the epicentrum, it becomesevident that the centrum was deeply seated, and this convic-tion is strengthened by the fact that the wave passed belowhigh mountain-ranges, to Greymouth and Westport on the onehand and to Kaikoura on the other, without any apparent effect * For this and the following methods, see Milnes Earthquakes,International Scientific Series, p. 200. ®nro$mtJixrti$ *$*& &*!*$ $ttziilukt Vol. xxi. ZAfiTHQUAXE SHOCK. To ilIx*a(rtU6 Ifyier &y T. W. JfaUan

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