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III.—On the British Earthquakes of 1890, with the exception of those felt in the Neighbourhood of Inverness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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The most remarkable earthquakes of the year 1890 were those felt in the district round Inverness between November 15 and December 14. These have been described in a separate paper. The remaining earthquakes were of comparatively slight intensity. Two or three were felt during the night of June 25–26 within a very small area to the north-east of Leeds, and one at least in Kintyre on July 24. Several slight shocks at Invergarry and Feddan, in Inverness-shire, complete the list so far as known to me, with the exception of a doubtful shock at Tulliallan in Perthshire on January 6.
It is hardly necessary to do more than refer here to the two supposed earthquakes felt on January 7 at and near Chelmsford. In a letter to “Nature,” I have given the evidence in full; and it appears to me sufficient to show that they were merely the reports of one of the great Woolwich guns.
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page 450 note 1 Read before the Geol. Soc. on June 24.
page 450 note 2 “Nature” (Feb. 20, 1890), vol. 41, p. 369Google Scholar.
page 452 note 1 Trans. of the N. of Engl. Inst. of Mining Eng. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), vol. 33, 1884, pp. 165–174Google Scholar. See also a paper by the same author, “On Some Recent Earthquakes on the Durham Coast and their probable cause,” Geol. Mag. (1885), 12. 3, Vol. II . pp. 513–515Google Scholar.
page 452 note 2 In the neighbourhood of Tadcaster, the thickness of the Permian formation (Upper Marls to Lower Magnesian Limestone, inclusive) is 300 feet (Mem. Geol. Surv., Explanation of Quarter-sheet 93 S.W.).
page 453 note 1 See page 366 of this volume. Tayinloan is about one mile N. of Killean ; Whitehouse, 7 miles E. 15° S. of Kilberry; Bellochantuy, 7 ½ miles S. 10° W. of Killean.
page 454 note 1 At both places, the shocks are recorded by only one observer, and should therefore, strictly, be regarded as doubtful shocks; but I have placed them under a separate heading, as both observers have for several years diligently recorded the occurrence of every shock felt by them.