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



Jan. 2, — 8.14 a. m. — f sec, weak. 



9.40 p. m. — \ sec, strong, threw down walls. 

 11.42 p. m. — two weak shocks \ sec apart. 

 Jan. 3, — 3.55 a. m. ) 



4.56 a. m. y weak, brief duration. 

 7.24 a. m. ) 

 Jan. 5, — 12.10 noon — f sec, strong ; several weak shocks two to 

 three minutes later. 



Jan. 



5.05 p. m. 



9.50 P. M. 



9.00 A. M. 



10.00 A. M. 



unimportant, 

 unimportant. 

 Fig. 9. 



Fig. 9. The Maurolico Monument in the Villa Mazzini ; this has fallen due S.W. 



Jan. 7, — 5.00 a. m. — strong, brief duration. 



6.28 p. m. — 5 sec, strong, threw down walls, followed by 

 a replica. 

 Several shocks during the night and the early 

 morning of Jan. 8th. 



This should not be taken as 



occurring during the time 



complete record of all shocks 

 nor can the relative intensity be 

 depended upon as accurate, the various observations having 

 been made on shore, on shipboard and in the ruins. The need 

 of a good, portable seismograph was never better illustrated 

 than by this event, as all the instruments in the neighbourhood 

 w r ere destroyed. It would have been possible to take a portable 



