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FULL particulars of the terrible wave which devastated the coast of Japan last June, causing the destruction of 20,000 lives and 12,000 houses and other buildings, have recently been given in the daily papers. The official report made to the Japanese Government having now reached this country, it may be interesting shortly to summarise the particulars of this occurrence, and to give the causes which have been assigned for its creation; and also to refer to waves of a similar character that have occurred on former occasions and in other localities.
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The Great Seismic Wave of Japan. Nature 54, 449–450 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054449a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/054449a0