Show A new mew Goo graphIcal pault fault at the annual meeting of if the british association tor for tho the advancement of science dr G C knott gave a report on oil earthquake phenomena in japan among effects of the recent severe earthquake were mentioned the depression of a valley by about nineteen feet for a distance of thirty miles thus forming a great geographical fault together with the destruction of mills bridges and towns and the curving of a 1 railway line running along an embankment and bridge 0 in the path of the tho earthquake it is ia stated incidentally that in many earthquakes though not tn in this one oil is overturned aud and by catching fire causes more damage than the earthquake itself |