Abstract
AN article on earth-tremors, which appeared in the Times last November, seems to have attracted considerable attention in Japan, and a few facts respecting the work which has been attempted in the investigation of microseismic disturbances in this country, may possibly be of interest. In the Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan we have already had three communications on this subject. Prof. H. M. Paul told us how, when searching for a site for the United States Naval Observatory at Washington, by watching the reflection of the image of a star in a vessel of mercury with a telescope, he was easily enabled to detect earth-tremors produced by a railway train at the distance of a mile.
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MILNE, J. Earth-Tremors in Japan. Nature 26, 125–126 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026125b0
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