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' Javasclie Courant/ 1900, No. 21. He gives Amahei time for the shock 

 as Ih. 42-2m., and that for Wahei as ± Ih. 43m. (17h. 7m. G.M.T.). At 

 the former place five to ten minutes after the shock, the coast was flooded 

 by a sea wave. This inundation, to a height of 1 '7 to 9 metres, was also 

 experienced at other places along the south coast of Ceram. At Banda, 

 187 km. .south-east from Elpapoeti Bay, the water began to rise about 

 half an hour after the shock. At Kawa, at the west end of Ceram, and 

 at other places, strips of alluvium were submei-ged. Dr. Verbeek places 

 the centrum a few miles inland to the west of Elpapoeti Bay, on the line 

 of a fault running parallel to the south coast of Ceram. 



The time intervals between the shock and the sea wave observed at 

 Amahei indicate an origin at a distance of -o to 1 degree from that place. 

 This would probably be sub-oceanic, and on the face of the Webber Deep, 

 where soundings have been obtained of 4,000 fathoms. As it is possible 

 that there may have been a bodily displacement of materials lying between 

 Ceram and the Webber Deep, this does not interfere with Dr. Vei'beek's 

 fault line. The time at the origin may therefore be taken as lying 

 between 17h. 7m. and 17h. 9m. If the maximum observed at Batavia 

 took place at 17h. 24m., and the movement took 15 minutes to reach 

 that place, we again reach the conclusion that the time at the origin 

 was about 17h. 9m. G.M.T. 



Table III. Mid-Indian Ocean. 



