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THIS book, dealing with construction in earth-J- quake-shaken countries, opens with a few words on the nature of earthquake motion, particularly acceleration. Then follows two scales of seismic intensity. After this a little is said about the nature of foundations, as, for example, whether they are upon soft or hard ground, on a slope, or on a plain. The materials used for construction are given considerable consideration, particularly the advantages that may be obtained by the use of ferro-concrete. The pictures, like those showing the framework of buildings, and various formulae are old acquaintances, whilst the text which accompanies them in many places closely follows a translation from English into Italian. Its author, Mr. Montel, particularly refers to two books from which he has obtained his information; one is No. 4, of the publications of the Earthquake Investigation Committee of Japan, written almost entinely by Dr. F. Omori, and the other is βLa Science Seismologique,β by Comte de Montessus de Ballore. The other contributors to some eighty volumes issued by the Earthquake Investigation Committee have been omitted, and no reference made to the Transactions of the Seismo-logical Society of Japan, in which we find accounts of almost everything that has been elaborated by Dr. Omori, and written about by Count Montessus and Mr. Montel.
Le Case Nelle Regioni Sismiche e la Scienza delle Costruzioni.
By A. Montel. Pp. iv + 116. (Torino: S. Lattes and Co., 1910.)
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MILNE, J. Le Case Nelle Regioni Sismiche e la Scienza delle Costruzioni . Nature 87, 74 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087074a0
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