 | Royal Geological Society of Cornwall - 1895 - 798 Seiten
...of eruption, may be defined to be. Mr. Mallet says an earthquake "is the transit of a wave or waves of elastic compression in any direction from vertically...surface of the earth, from any centre of impulse, or more than one, and which may be attended with sound and tidal waves, dependent upon the impulse and... | |
 | Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, Brighton - 1898 - 644 Seiten
...and great results followed from the work of the Seismological Society of Japan, established in 1880. horizontally, in any azimuth, through the crust and...the impulse and upon circumstances of position as to land and sea. This definition was illustrated by a diagrammatic representation of the path of a typical... | |
 | John Milne - 1899 - 412 Seiten
...descriptions, formulated his views as follows : — An earthquake is ' the transit of a wave or waves of elastic compression in any direction from vertically...of the earth, from any centre, of impulse or from mare, than one, and which may be attended with sound and tidal waves, dependent upon the impulse and... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1905 - 536 Seiten
...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 former, and upon circumstances of position as to sea and land."... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1905 - 514 Seiten
...contribution to the subject he announced his famous definition of that motion as " the transit of a wave of elastic compression in 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... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1921 - 626 Seiten
...any preceding writer ". The principle referred to is that an earthquake is " the transit of a wave of elastic compression in 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... | |
 | 1860 - 856 Seiten
...lead Mr. Mallet to the conclusion that the true definition of an earthquake is, the transit of a wave of elastic compression in 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... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1860 - 460 Seiten
...to consider it established that an earthquake is simply "the transit of a wave or waves of clastic compression in any direction, from vertically upwards...upon circumstances of position as to sea and land." Nearly all such elastic waves as we can usually observe originate in impulses so comparatively small... | |
 | 1879 - 698 Seiten
...and earthquakes. An earthquake has been defined by Mr. Mallet as "the transit of a wave, or waves, of elastic compression in any direction, from vertically...attended with sound and tidal waves dependent upon the imJulso and upon circumstances of position as to sea and land." f we could only read the earthquake... | |
 | Charles Davison - 1927 - 266 Seiten
...however, added precision to previous statements in denning an earthquake as " the transit of a wave of elastic compression in 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... | |
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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, from any centre of impulse or from more than one, and which may be attended with... 
