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WE learn from Capt. N. H. Heck that it is proposed to instal a seismograph, if possible on a rock foundation, at a base of the forthcoming United States Expedition to the Antarctic. This, along with the stations in South Africa, South America, Australia and Now Zealand will be extremely useful in determining epicentres in the southern hemisphere where seismographic stations are all too fow, and on the continent of Antarctica in particular, the seismic history of which is little known. Miss Bellamy's catalogue of 1913–1930 shows seven epicentres actually located on the continent, and the Milne seismograph of the British Antarctic Expedition from March 1902 until November 1903 (lat. 77° 51′ S., long. 166° 45′E.) recorded 135 earthquakes, of winch approximately 75 were local though none was strong enough to be felt by the explorers.
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Seismology in the Antarctic. Nature 144, 975 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144975d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144975d0