EARTHQUAKE MOTION TO GREAT DISTAM I 



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The commencement of the slow undulations on the great seismograph of the Rocca 

 di Papa at 8 h 40 obviously represents a different phase to that accepted on the other 

 records as the commencement of the third phase. The same may te said of the times 

 at Catania and Ischia. 



The time of commencement of the disturbance at Nicolaiew, 8 h 7 m , being practically 

 identical with the time of origin, cannot refer to any of the phases here being dealt 

 with, if it is to be connected with this earthquake at all. 



Converting the times into intervals we get the following result : 



5. INDIA, June 12, 1897. 



The epicentre of this shock was an area of about 300 kiloms. long and about half 

 as broad ; the centre of this area lay in about N. lat. 26, E. long 91, which may 



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