 Throughout the city we have a graded scale of intensity of destructive effects which corresponds closely to this classification of the ground. The most violent destruction of buildings, as everybody knows, was on the made ground. This ground seems to...  The Physics of Earthquake Phenomena - Page 259by Cargill Gilston Knott - 1908 - 283 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Earthquakes - 1906 - 214 pages
...closely to the classification of the ground. The most violent destruction of buildings, as everybody knows, was on the made ground. This ground seems to...bowl, or as a semi-liquid material in a tank. The earth waves which pass through the highly elastic rock swiftly with a small amplitude seem in this... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1906 - 766 pages
...closely to this classification of the ground. The most violent destruction of buildings, as everybody knows, was on the made ground. This ground seems to...bowl, or as a semi-liquid material in a tank. The earth waves which pass through the highly elastic rocks swiftly with a small amplitude seem in this... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1906 - 906 pages
...closely to this classification of the ground. The most violent destruction of buildings, as everybody knows, was on the made ground. This ground seems to...bowl, or as a semi-liquid material in a tank. The earth waves which pass through the highly elastic rocks swiltly with a small amplitude seem in this... | |
 | James Orr - Bible - 1915 - 760 pages
...report of the scientific commission appointed by the state, "the most violent destruction of buildings was on the made ground. This ground seems to have behaved during tho earthquake very much in tho same way as jelly in a bowl, or as a semi-liquid in a tank." Santa... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - Geography - 1906 - 954 pages
...closely to this classification of the ground. The most violent destruction of buildings, as everybody knows, was on the made ground. This ground seems to...bowl, or as a semi-liquid material in a tank. The earth waves which pass through the highly elastic rocks swiftly with a small amplitude seem in this... | |
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