| California. State Earthquake Investigation Commission - 1908 - 480 pages
...objects; cracking of ceilings. V. Smart shock, generally felt; furniture shaken; some clocks stopt; some sleepers awakened. VI. Severe shock, general...Great disasters ; overturning of rocks ; fissures in surface of earth ; mountain slides. It is apparent that the scale leaves room for wide variation in... | |
| California. State Earthquake Investigation Commission - 1908 - 490 pages
...of this scale, as republished by the present Commission in its Preliminary Report, are as follows : VII. Violent shock, overturning of loose objects;...fissures in the surface of the earth; mountain slides. The range of intensity in the city did not exceed these limits. Probably it did not reach the higher... | |
| 1925 - 880 pages
...the California earthquake,1 the more severe effects are graded as follows, in increasing intensity: VII. Violent shock, overturning of loose objects;...Great disasters; overturning of rocks; fissures in surface of earth; mountain slides These effects relate chiefly to edifices of human construction, and... | |
| James Park - 1925 - 806 pages
...movable objects, fall of plaster, ringing of church bells, general panic, without damage to buildings. VIII. Fall of chimneys, cracks in the walls of buildings....destruction of some buildings. X. Great disasters, ruins, disturbance of strata, fissures in the earth's crust, rock-falls from mountains. Absolute Scale.... | |
| Robert Louis Kovach - 2004 - 288 pages
...objects; fall of plaster; ringing of church bells; general panic, without serious damage to buildings. VIII Fall of chimneys; cracks in the walls of buildings....Partial or total destruction of some buildings. X Great disaster; ruins; disturbance of strata; fissures in the ground; rock-falls from mountains; landslides.... | |
| 1899 - 846 pages
...general fright, without damage to buildings; nausea felt: "violent;" "very violent." VIII. Falling of chimneys; cracks in the walls of buildings. IX....overturning of rocks; fissures in the surface of the ground; mountain slides. The relation between the intensity of a shock as determined by the formula... | |
| Nevada. Legislature - 1895 - 940 pages
...of church belle: general fright; without damage to buildings. VIII. — Kail of chimneys; cracks in walls of buildings. IX. — Partial or total destruction...fissures in the surface of the earth ; mountain slides. Station. Date. Time. Direction of Motion. No. of Tremors. Force — R. & F. Scale. Remarks. Austin... | |
| ANZAAS (Association) - 1893 - 1098 pages
...church bells, general panic, without damage to buildings. VIII. Fall of chimneys, cracks in the walla of buildings. IX. Partial or total destruction of some buildings. X. Great disasters, ruins, disturbance of strata, fissures in the earth's crust, rock-falls from mountains. Ill IH >. 1—... | |
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