A Study of Recent Earthquakes

Project Gutenberg's A Study of Recent Earthquakes, by Charles DavisonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: A Study of Recent EarthquakesAuthor: Charles DavisonRelease Date: April 12, 2008 [EBook #25062]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STUDY OF RECENT EARTHQUAKES ***Produced by Jeannie Howse, Henry Craig and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet Archive)Transcriber's Note:Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has beenpreserved.Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For a completelist, please see the end of this document.Some unicode characters may not show in all browsers, hover yourmouse over the missing character to see the meaning. Like this.Click on the images to see a larger version.A STUDY OFRECENT EARTHQUAKES.BYCHARLES DAVISON, Sc.D., F.G.S.AUTHOR OF"THE HEREFORD EARTHQUAKE OF DECEMBER 17TH, 1896."WITH 80 ILLUSTRATIONSLondon and Newcastle-on-Tyne:THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., LTD.1905PREFACE.The present volume differs from a text-book of seismology in giving brief, though detailed, accounts of individualearthquakes rather than a discussion of the phenomena and ...