| Show JAPANS GREAT earthquake tito mont flout severo severe nala 0 to life illo of tile mally recent llo japan Is credited with tin nn of about BOO earthquakes a year hut bait ili n I SUI the number was polled trotted ns as nearly 2500 on oct 2 28 23 the shock was exceptionally severe and calamitous nn an enormous anici nut of lire rand property bins liing destroyed according to mine tit of the I 1 seismological mo logical society Eo ciely in the devastated districts the motion of the lie earthquake was iraq N ic alent but its it spread outlaid at d like rings of water on the ho hurbace of a pond the waves lie lic canie earne longer and flatter till in ID tokio people were in the same position as oil the leek deck of a lirio larve ship on the ocean thele birie at t gentle si elling motion alj the wavis p passed below their cit at it railway iby estatio i ten tell miles front froin nagaya the shock was severe the stil tion maiter hiis thrown off the on to the railway line antl aws then jolted from one side bide to tha other with buch violence A rk 1 5 11 NN 10 44 A WK it e 0 RAILWAY USES DENT nr DY r that lie ito fell on his bis knees anil and though lie he caught hold bold of the rails lie ho was thrown about falling first on one shoulder and then on the other another pcr son who was standing tt in ID the street MW the land waves coming quite rapidly along the treet street r 9 alic lie road moved dovci in a series of ripples splitting lilting Bp and at it the rame time the effect on the railway line as show an a iu in the illustration was peculiar in ID some places the line remained undisturbed d in other places it was thrown into a n harn fickies h of folds fold horizontal bent beuda lis and so even into vertical waves As to the c causes of earthquakes attributes then to atrin aull interruptions in ili pica process cess of mOMI mountain fori nation believing lieving Ilo that earthquakes are associated with the elevation elev tion of the ground the professor sug nuggets gets As the laying down of 11 hat i would practically bo be a spirit level irvel one or two miles in length pythis by this means they could tell whether earth tips occurred and anal whether before or after the earth earthquake I 1 |
