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instrument down to Messina from Naples and to have thus 

 obtained a complete record of all after-shocks. 



Of those indicated above three are deserving of special 

 mention. That of Jan. 2, at 9.40 p. m., occurred when the writer 

 was standing on the deck of a steamer moored to the embank- 

 ment. The impression was that of a submarine explosion — a 

 loud report and a sharp vertical movement. These, however, 



Fig. 10. 



Fig. 10. Tall stack ; top snapped off and fallen S.S.W. 



were partly due to the iron hull of the ship receiving the 

 impact from the water. In from three to live seconds was 

 heard the crash of falling walls within the cit}^ and smouldering 

 tires blazed up anew. This shock is reported to have snapped 

 the anchor tips of the British cruiser 

 carried two miles to the southward by 

 through the Straits. 



At ten minutes past noon of the 5th another strong shock 

 of the same general nature occurred, but this was felt on shore 



" Exmouth," which was 

 a twelve-knot current 



