| Show Precaution Against Earthquake rn the Year 185T there occurred a ter rlble earthquake In Italy which destroyed de-stroyed several villages and klllnl 10 000 human belngn A full account of this disaster may be found In 11 hook hI Hobert JIallett mho went from place to place and fully studied the phenomena ena ex lit bited Ile writes of the en test r phe me an nppallln moss of hu man misely almost the whole of hlch wn a preventable by i the exercise of proper cure In choice of methods i of house onntuouon In the cnrthqunk region anal further repetitions of hlch ht thu be Completely avoided It Is I curious to note that Professor lIIn th e leading earthquake authority Ili I slvlnR exactly the same thing with regard re-gard to the recent earthquake In Assam As-sam by which tsoo liven were lost I and nn enormous am aunt of property destroyed He points out that Japan has suffered from fur more severe earthquakes but that profiting by ex perlence and guided by experiment the mrlneers there with their European II npws have gradualy departed from tlw stereotyped system of buildIng build-Ing contuOllon In vogue In other ountrlrs The result Is I that nw total I nan resist earthquake shocks i hlle the old < ones Ill gduaU able appearing Th wise Japanem pend 11 largo um annnlly tie alst n com Inltte III Innollonth eurthquak phenomena a feenfetror Is I eplol nt Mile university to lecture Upon the ties erethods of building construction In irthquuke district and they leave nt a special comen 110 toiler to Assam report upon thu I recnt earthquake there Professor Milne urge the government gov-ernment of India to take 11 leon front I Japan Chambei Journal 1 |
