 There is every reason to consider it established, that an earthquake is simply " the transit of a wave or waves of elastic compression in any direction, from vertically upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the crust and surface of the earth,...  The Quarterly Journal of Science - Page 2481873Full view - About this book
 | 1860 - 620 pages
...upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the surface and crust of the earth from any center of impulse, or from more than one, and which may be attended with tidal and round waves dependent upon the former, and upon circumstances of position as to sea and land.... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - 1851 - 752 pages
...impression in any direction, from vertically upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the crust of the earth, from any centre of impulse, or from more than one, and which may be attended with tidal and sound waves, dependent upon the impulse, and upon the circumstances of position as to sea... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 572 pages
...any direction, from vertically upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the surface and crust of the earth, from any centre of impulse or from more than one, and which may be attended with tidal and sound leaves, dependent upon tJie impulse and upon circumstances of position as to sea and... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - 1851 - 888 pages
...impression in any direction. from vertically upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the crust of the earth, from any centre of impulse, or from more than one, and which may * Sir Charles Lyell (Principles of Geology, 7th edit., p. 344), calls attention to the great Lisbon... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel, Robert Main - 1859 - 496 pages
...the transit of a wave or seaves of elastic compression in any direction, from vertically upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the crust and...upon circumstances of position as to sea and land." Until this was clearly grasped, the observation of earthquake phenomena, in the absence of a " guiding... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1860 - 460 pages
...elastic compression in any direction, from vertically upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through ike crust and surface of the earth, from any centre of...upon circumstances of position as to sea and land." Until this was clearly grasped the observation of earthquake phenomena, in the absence of a "guiding... | |
 | 1860 - 512 pages
...impression in any direction from verticality upward to horizontality in any azimuth through the crust of the earth, from any centre of impulse, or from more than one, and which may be attended with tidal and sound waves dependent upon the impulse and upon the circumstances of position HS to sea and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 pages
...upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the surface and crust of the earth from any center of impulse, or from more than one, and which may be attended with tidal and round waves dependent upon the former, and upon circumstances of position as to sea and land.... | |
 | William Henry Rosser - 1862 - 322 pages
...any direction, from vertically upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the surface and crust of the earth, from any centre of impulse, or from more than one, and which may be attended with tidal and sound waves, dependent upon the impulse and upon circumstances of position as to sea and... | |
 | 1863 - 556 pages
...elastic compression in any direction to horizontality, in any azimuth, through the surface and crust of the earth, from any centre of impulse or from more than one, which may be attended with tidal and sound waves, dependent upon the impulse, and upon cireumstances... | |
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