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or not, give a picture of great destruction. The losses are in part due 

 to the density of population : Japan is the only country in which two 

 large cities with a combined population in excess of 6,000,000 are 

 subject to the same earthquake hazard. However, Japan's seismic 

 activity is likely to be overemphasized because (1) of the many per- 



Figure 2. — Map of Japan giving names and boundaries of the different provinces. 



Northern part. 



