322 F. A. Ferret — Report on the Messina Earthquake. 



The event occurred on a steep barometric gradient, the mer- 

 cury rising 5 mm during the night to a maximum at 9.00 a. m. 

 of the 28th and then falling 10 mm in the course of the day. 



The moon was nearing its quadrature position of the 29th 

 and had just passed its perigee, these conditions producing the 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 1. Office of the Hotel Tiinacria, clock stopped at 5.23. 



u Terrestrial Maximum" of Dec. 28th on the writer's astro- 

 seismic curve for 1908.* This combination was preceded by 

 three very favorable luni-solar positions during the month of 

 December, and this fact had led the writer to expect some 

 * Science, Aug. 28, 1908. 



