328 F. A. Perret — Report on the Messina Earthquake. 



The general direction of the earth movement was well shown 

 by the wreck of the Manrolico monument in the Yilla 

 Mazzini (fig. 9). This has fallen due S.W. and, having been 

 symmetrical and standing on a level plain, it gave as fair an 

 index as could be obtained. The same general direction was 



Fig. 



Fig. 7. Broken arch of the Palazzata showing rubble construction. 



observed just outside the city, where the top of a tall stack had 

 been snapped off and fallen S.S.W. (fig. 10). Two other single 

 column monuments on the hills west of the city had also fallen 

 S.W. At Yilla San Giovanni a tall stack was tilted S.W. 

 Although in Japan it is generally found that such objects fall 

 inward or toward the epicentrum, this was not the case here, 

 the most probable explanation being that, owing to the slight 

 depth of the centrum and the nearness of the city to the epi- 



