The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 188
ed in two ways:first, by the explosion of steam beneath the sur-face of the earth; second, by the sudden snappingof the earths crust. Either of these, of course,would jar the surface of the earth. Sometimesit shakes back and forth, or up and down; some-times it rocks like a cradle; but the usual… … KRAKATOA IN ERUPTION. equal devastation in the ocean. That point inthe earth at which the explosion or breakingtakes place is called the earthquake-focus; andfrom it what are known as earthquake-waves pass
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