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WITH reference to the letter which appears in your issue of July 23 (p. 272), on the earthquakes having occurred at Vesuvius on June 7, and on the same day in Southern Australia, I would ask leave to point out that the localities mentioned lie in the vicinity of a great circle which I call the “south-west coast of Australia great circle” (that is, the coast-line between Cape Hamlin and Cape Chatham). Melbourne would be about 370 miles north of its direction, and it cuts Italy in the neighbourhood of Catanzaro, leaving Vesuvius about 65 miles to the north. This great circle is one of maximum compression on the earth's surface—that is, it lies for the most part on the ocean surface, its greatest extent on land being in traversing Arabia, which it crosses in a north-west, south-east direction.
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O'REILLY, J. The Recent Earthquakes in Italy. Nature 44, 293 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044293b0
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