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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. The Kingston Earthquake. The Kingston Earthquake. the ruin, but outside a radius of ten to twelve miles from Kingston the loss to property is small. That, in its initial power, the earthquake was inferior to those of Valparaiso and San Francisco is clear from the smallness of the region that was severely disturbed, and also from the comparatively slight disturbances recorded at Shide, Edinburgh, and other far-distant seismic observatories. Mr. Charles Davison, formerly Secretary of the British Association's Earth Tremors Committee, calls attention in the London Times (weekly edition, January 25, 1907) to the fact that the foundation of Kingston consists of beds of sand and gravel, brought down from the northern mountains. It is on ground of this kind that earthquake shocks attain their maximum intensity. At Charleston in i886, and at San Francisco last year, the greatest damage was done on made land filling up old creeks or low-lying ground. During the Tokio earthquake of 1894 the range and intensity of the disturbance, as measured from seismographic records, were about twice as great on low, soft ground as on the hard chalk rock in the higher part of the city. Mr. Davison adds: Almost the whole boundary of the Caribbean Sea is a band in intermittent motion . . . Jamaica is situated in the very position in which great earthquakes are to be expected, in which the ocean-bed shelves with great rapidity, not on one side alone, as in most earthquake-countries, but to the north even more steeply than to the south. San Francisco, Columbia, and Valparaiso are all situated on the margin of a great slope, while near the east coast of Japan lies one of the deepest regions of the globe.