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An Introduction to Seismological Research - History and Development (Paperback, Revised)
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An Introduction to Seismological Research - History and Development (Paperback, Revised)
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Modern seismology is a relatively new science; most current ideas
originated no earlier than the latter half of the nineteenth
century. The focus of this book is on seismological concepts, how
they originated and how they form our modern understanding of the
science. A history of seismology falls naturally into four periods:
a largely mythological period previous to the 1755 Lisbon
earthquake; a period of direct observation from then to the
development of seismometers in the late 19th century; a period
during which study of seismic arrival times were used to outline
the structure of the earth's interior extending to the 1960s; the
modern era in which all aspects of seismic waves are used in
combination with trial models and computers to elucidate details of
the earthquake process. This history attempts to show how modern
ideas grew from simple beginnings. Ideas are rarely new, and their
first presentations are often neglected until someone is able to
present the evidence for their correctness convincingly. Much care
has been used to give the earliest sources of ideas and to
reference the basic papers on all aspects of earthquake seismology
to help investigators find such references in tracing the roots of
their own work.
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