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SHINOBU HIROTA, who returns to Japan at the end of this month, by his doctor's advice, came with me to this country in 1895, and within a week of his arrival the seismograph which he brought with him from Japan was at work at Shide. To convince those who had doubts as to the possibility of recording in Britain earthquakes which had originated even so far away as their antipodes, a second instrument was installed at Carisbrooke Castle. To look after this Hirota had, wet or fine, a daily walk of four miles. The fact that these two instruments gave similar records and also that from a single record we could tell the distance at which a megaseism had originated naturally attracted some attention. Directly it was shown that certain earth disturbances had interrupted cables, Colonies desirous of knowing the cause of these sudden isolations from the rest of the world set up seismographs.
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MILNE, J. Shinobu Hirota. Nature 90, 435 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090435b0
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