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investigate, and set off on Tuesday evening. Meanwhile, eduard von Moj-
sisovics, the vice-director of the Geological Institute in vienna, circulated
questionnaires and enlisted newspapers to print requests for information.
In all, the Geological Institute would collect more than 1,300 felt reports
from more than nine hundred locations, plus over two hundred negative
reports. Franz eduard suess's final analysis would mine all this testimony
alongside over five hundred published sources. Remarkably, the younger
suess printed all these sources as an appendix to his final monograph on the
earthquake, which appeared in 1897 and ran to 590 pages. Two hundred
pages alone were devoted to the observer reports received by the Geological
Institute, which were necessarily “mostly reduced to keywords; only particu-
larly elaborate and typical descriptions are reproduced word-for-word.”
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Fig. 7.4. The Ljubljana earthquake of 1895, caricatured by a viennese artist as a gro-
tesque giant stomping across the Balkan peninsula. note the prominence of the sava
River, the tributary of the Danube that flows through the south slav lands—symbolic of
the
natural
foundations of Habsburg unity. In
Für Laibach.
