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THE Seismological Committee of the British Association has since 1911 made itself responsible, in a greater or less measure, for collating the records of earthquakes made by seismological stations all over the world. The work of computing the epicentres was first undertaken by Prof. John Milne at Shide, and on his death was taken over by Prof. H. H. Turner, who gave the International Seismological Summary† (formerly the Bulletin of the B.A. Seismological Committee) the form it now bears. Such determination of epicentres, based on least squares solutions of the recorded times of arrival of P waves at the various stations, now covers both accurately and completely all the medium and large earthquakes recorded in the period 1913-1932 inclusive. It is the purpose of the present note to direct attention to the geographical distribution of these epicentres.
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Geophys. Supp. Man. Not. Roy. Ast. Soc., 1, 1 (1922).
Inter. Seis. Sum., 1927, 1, 108 (1930).
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BELLAMY, E. Epicentres of Earthquakes, 1913–1932*. Nature 143, 504–506 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143504a0
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