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THE DIAGRAMS OF EMERGENCES.
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lines parallel to and over it, are at levels respectively of 1000 feet English above it, and above each other, and the seismic vertical, is the strong perpendicular black line. All observed stations, to the eastward of the meridian passing through the seismic vertical, are arranged to the right of the latter, and at their respective radial surface distances from it, and all the stations to the westward of the same meridian in the same way, arranged to the left hand of the seismic vertical; and all at the nearest approximation to their true levels above the sea.

In No. 1, the two fine lines drawn from each station, are those of the least and greatest emergences there observed, while in No. 2 the mean depths along the seismic vertical taken from each pair, (or for each station,) are deduced and plotted, as also shown by the fine lines, which form, with the horizon, the angles of mean depths; and, finally, from all the latter is deduced, the general mean focal depth or that point which represents the mean depth of the centre of effort, or mean of all the partial foci.

Stations for Emergences, e
Stations. Elevation
above
the Sea.
Observed
Maximum and Minimum
Values of e.
Feet.
Salerno Sea level 13o 10o
Eboli 327 21o 30' 18o
Laviano 1,637 28o 30' 21o
La Ducliessa 1,441 33o 24o
Polla 900 57o 53' 35o
Auletta 880 45o
Villa Carusso 1,000 64o 60o
Pertosa 880 75o 65o
Vietri di Potenza 700 79o 30' 64o 15'
Salvitello 1,500 50o 48o
Atena 1,100 47o 30'