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IN a recent number of the Materiaux pour l'etude des Calamitis (No. 35, 82-86; 1935), M. Charles Bois continues his record of destructive earthquakes. During the first six months of this year, there were 16 such earthquakes, four of them resulting, in considerable loss of life, namely, the Persian earthquake of April 11 (480 deaths), the Formosa earthquake of April 20 (3,065), the Caucasian earthquake of May 1 (600) and the Quetta earthquake of May 30 (40,000). The latter number is probably too high, the latest estimate being about 30,000. On the other hand, the number of deaths (2,000) given by M. Bois for the Bihar earthquake of January 15, 1934 (NATURE, 136, 472, September 21, 1935), is too low, the number given in the official report on the earthquake being more than 10,000.
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Destructive Earthquakes in 1935. Nature 136, 639 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136639b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136639b0