On the Leicester Earthquake of August 4, 1893. 



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Ipondon Long Eaton 

 eston-upon-Trent 



Wartnaby 

 oRagdale 



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oHumberstone 

 LEICESTER 



EJSaddon 



Area of the Earthquake of August 4, 1893. 

 MILES 



Woodhouse Eaves and Markfield. The position of the fault is thus 

 approximately determined. 



Geology of the Epicentral District. 



The rocks of Charnwood Forest have been described by Messrs. 

 Hill and Bonney in a valuable series of memoirs.* The district is 

 now being re-examined by Mr. C. Fox Strangways, of H.M. Geo- 

 logical Survey, to whom I am. indebted for some additional in- 

 formation. 



The part of the Forest region with which we are immediately con- 



* " The Precarbonif erous Bocks of Charnwood Forest," ' Quart. Journ. G-eol. 

 Soc.,' vol. 33, 1877, pp. 754789; vol. 34, 1878, pp. 199239; vol. 36, 1880, 

 pp. 337350. 



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