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MAY I ask to be allowed to call attention to some points in relation to the two earthquakes mentioned in your issues of December 9, p. 127 (“Volcanic Eruption in Niua-Fu, Friendly Islands”), and December 16, p. 157 (“Earthquake at Sea”). As regards the first, it is stated that “The whole island has been in a disturbed state for some three months and a half, the dates of the principal disturbances coinciding remarkably with those which are going on in other parts of the world—earthquakes on June 8 and 11, which, I think, are the dates of the first New Zealand outbreaks. … This is, of course, not wonderful; but the final catastrophe here took place on August 31, which, we understand, was the exact date of the recent American earthquake. It was preceded for twenty-four hours by earthquakes, and went on for ten days.”
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O'REILLY, J. The Recent Earthquakes. Nature 35, 197–198 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035197b0
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