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Earthquake Warnings

Nature volume 112, page 538 (1923)Cite this article

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THE recent disaster in Japan demonstrates the importance of endeavouring to ascertain if there are any premonitory indications of a coming earthquake shock which can be recognised and thus enable a warning to be given of its approach.

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EVANS, J. Earthquake Warnings. Nature 112, 538 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112538a0

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