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IN the last two numbers of the Matiriaux pour VEtude des Galamitis (79-84, 152-155; 1935), M. Charles Bois has given a list of 54 destructive earthquakes that occurred during the year 1934. The only great earthquake of the series was that of northern Bihar on January 15. Three others, one in China and two in Mexico, may have reached the highest of Prof. Milne's three degrees of intensity. The most remarkable feature of the year was, however, the occurrence of only one semi-destructive shock in each of such well-known seismic regions as Italy, Greece, Japan, the Philippines, California and New Zealand. The total number of lives lost was unusually small, in Bihar about 2,000, and in all the rest, according to M. Bois, the total is only 39.
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Destructive Earthquakes in 1934. Nature 136, 472–473 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136472d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136472d0