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SUPPOSING that the underground noises heard at Caïman-Brac on Sunday, August 26, 1883, were not only synchronous with, but actually the same as, those caused by the great eruption in the Straits of Sunda, it does not seem to follow that the sound waves were propagated through the whole diameter of the earth. On the contrary, the question is at once raised, at what depth below the surface did the disturbances occur which found such destructive vent at Krakatoa? And if only the time-record east and west were accurate and satisfactory, there would seem to be some datum supplied for approximately estimating this depth. The centre of disturbance may have receded from and become inaudible at the Caïmans in proportion as, on the 27th, it found final vent at Krakatoa.
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CECIL, H. Krakatoa. Nature 31, 506 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031506b0
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