Earthquakes and other earth movements Earthquakes and other earth movements . earthquakesother00miln Year: 1886 DISTUKBANCES IN THE OCEAN. 169 instances, however, this observation may be due to the slow and more gentle phenomena of the previous drawing out of the water, which in a steep waste, or when the water is rough, would be difficult to observe, not having been remarked. The distance to which these sea waves have extended has usually been exceedingly great. Fig. 28.—Record of Tide Gauge at Port Point, San Francisco. Showing Earthquake Waves of May 1877. The sea wave of the Iquique ea
Earthquakes and other earth movements Earthquakes and other earth movements . earthquakesother00miln Year: 1886 DISTUKBANCES IN THE OCEAN. 169 instances, however, this observation may be due to the slow and more gentle phenomena of the previous drawing out of the water, which in a steep waste, or when the water is rough, would be difficult to observe, not having been remarked. The distance to which these sea waves have extended has usually been exceedingly great. Fig. 28.—Record of Tide Gauge at Port Point, San Francisco. Showing Earthquake Waves of May 1877. The sea wave of the Iquique earthquake of May 9, 1877, like many of its predecessors, was felt across the basin of the whole Pacific, from New Zealand in the south, to Japan and Kamschatka in the north. And but for the intervention of the Eurasian and American continents
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