THE SCIENTIST. 
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The Recent Earthquake m Japan. 
KANSAS CITY. DECEMBER, 1891. 
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This is Avitbout doubt the most 
destructive earthquake in the his- 
tory of mankind; the earth seemed 
to open and close as if the surface 
was only a thin scum on a turbulent 
sea, as one of the papers has put it, 
"the surface was shaken like a car- 
pet, was rijjped, torn, bounced up 
and down, and twisted in every 
direction." 
Sand, salt water and mud were 
forced up through the great crevices 
where the earth had split open, and 
as the earth settled back many were 
the victims that were enclosed in its 
horrible gaping jaws. 
Hundreds and hundreds of square 
miles suffered from its terrible 
effects, and it is estimated that it 
will take six or eight months to re- 
pair the damage done to the rail- 
roads alone. A village of eighty- 
nine houses near Gifu sank two 
hundred feet below the surface. 
The north side of the sacred moun- 
tain Fujeyama, some 1,200 feet in 
width, has subsided to a depth of 
about six hundred feet. One of the 
cracks in the earth was six hundred 
feet deep and eighty miles long. 
In the three cities, Gifu, Nagoja and 
Ogaki, about 12,000 persons were 
killed. 
The board of regents of Ann 
Arbor have purchased the geological 
collection of Dr. Rominger, which 
consists of about six thousand speci- 
mens from the Mesozoic of Central 
Europe. 
