 | Charles Davison - Earthquakes - 1905 - 436 pages
...prostrate, or standing stark up against the light, and is appalled by spectacles of desolation. . . . Houses seem to have been precipitated to the ground...of overthrow, house by house and street by street, analysing each detail and comparing the results, as to the direction of force, that must have produced... | |
 | Charles Davison - Earthquakes - 1905 - 402 pages
...prostrate, or standing stark up against the light, and is appalled by spectacles of desolation. . . . Houses seem to have been precipitated to the ground...of overthrow, house by house and street by street, analysing each detail and comparing the results, as to the direction of force, that must have produced... | |
 | Charles Davison - Earth scientists - 1927 - 266 pages
...is bewildered by 'a city become an heap.. He wanders over masses of dislocated stone and mortar. . . .Houses seem to have been precipitated to the ground...of overthrow, house by house and street by street, analysing each detail and comparing the results, as to the direction of force, that must have produced... | |
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Houses seem to have been precipitated to the ground in every direction of azimuth. There seems no governing law, nor any indication of a prevailing direction of overturning force. It is only by first gaining some commanding point, whence a general view... 