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WITHIN a year after its occurrence, the reports on this destructive earthquake have been issued in a special volume (Supplementary volume 3, 238 pages) of the Bulletin of the Earthquake Research Institute. The memoirs (eleven in number) are written in Japanese, each being followed by a summary in English. The five reports are also in Japanese, but only one of them contains an outline in a Western language. Few works on any earthquake have been so admirably illustrated, for half the volume consists of 29 maps and 119 plates, each of the latter containing reproductions of two or three photographs, with titles in English as well as in Japanese. They represent the damage to villages and buildings, the buckling . of railway lines, the fissures in roads and fields, and various aspects of the remarkable earthquake faults.
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D., C. The Formosa Earthquake of April 21, 1935. Nature 138, 353 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138353a0
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