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Author Coen, Deborah R., author

Title The earthquake observers : disaster science from Lisbon to Richter / Deborah R. Coen
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
Contents The human seismograph -- The planet in the village: Comrie, Scotland, 1788-1897 -- News of the apocalypse -- The tongues of seismology: Switzerland, 1855-1912 -- Geographies of hazard -- The moment of danger -- Fault lines and borderlands: imperial Austria, 1880-1914 -- What is the earth? -- The youngest land: California, 1853-1906 -- A true measure of violence: California, 1906-1935
Summary Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs, but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth century, a scientific description of an earthquake was built of stories-stories from as many people in as many situations as possible. Sometimes their stories told of fear and devastation, sometimes of wonder and excitement. In The Earthquake Observers, Deborah R. Coen acquaints readers not only with the century's most eloqu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Seismology -- History
Earthquakes -- Observations -- History -- 19th century
NATURE -- Earthquakes & Volcanoes.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Seismology & Volcanism.
Earthquakes -- Observations
Seismology
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226111834
0226111830
0226111830
9781283733281
1283733285