Earthquakes Save the World from a Deluge London, Aug. 28. will probably be cold comfort! to the sufferers by the earthquake at Tokyo and Yokohama to know tha: they are not the ims of brutal and meaningless catastrophe, but that they were a sacrifice for the safety of the race. Yet that the burden of an address meeting' at Southampton.
Professor Perks asserted that if the earth's crust were rigid enough to resist earthquakes, a universal deluge would be in sight, as the power of erosion was great enough} to reduce the land to. sea level but for the opposing and rejuvenating force which causes earthquakes Reuter.
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