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17. Distribution of destructive earthquakes since the earliest 

 times. The maximum number of ?A occurred in Yamashiro, 

 due without doubt to that province's containing Kyoto, which was 

 the capital from the end of the 8th century till 1867. Sagami 

 and Musashi, for which the numbers of destructive earthquakes 

 were respectively 28 and 18, seem really to have l)een the regions 

 most disturbed in Japan, as the greatest numbers of destructive 

 earthquakes since the 17th century occurred in these two pro- 

 vinces. To sum up : no destructive earthquake occurred in the 

 seven provinces of Iki, Oki, Tajima, Shiribeshi, Kitami, Hitaka 

 and, Tokachi ; only one in the seven provinces of Chikugo, 

 Buzen, Suwo, Hoki, Mimasaka, Ishikari and Teshio ; more than 

 eleven in the fourteen provinces of Yamashiro, Yamato, 

 Kawachi, Settsu, Kii, Ise, Shinano, Mikawa, Totomi, Su ruga, 

 Sagami, Musashi, Shimotsuke and Iwashiro ; between six 

 and ten in the thirteen provinces of lyo, Izumi, Iga, Omi, 

 Echizen, Mino, Owari, Kai, Izu, Shimosa, Hitachi, Echigo and 

 Kikuzen ; and between two and live in the remaining forty-two 

 provinces. 



18. With respect to the distribution of destructive earth- 

 quakes in the interval between the 17th century and the present 

 time, the maximum number of 14 occurred in Musashi, and the 

 next greatest number, that of 11, in Sagami. Between six and 

 ten destructive earthquakes occurred in the sixteen provinces of 

 Yamashiro, Yamato, Kawachi, Settsu, Kii, Iga, Ise, Omi, Mino, 

 Owari, Mikawa, Totomi, Suruga, Shinano, Shimotsuke and 

 Rikuzen ; only one in the ten provinces of Chikugo, Buzen, 

 Suwo, Izumo, Hoki, Mimasaka, Etchiu, Hitachi, Ishikari 

 and Teshio ; none in the nine provinces of Iki, Oki, Tajima, 



