The earthquake observers
Subtitle: disaster science from Lisbon to Richter
By: Deborah R. Coen
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780226111810; 9780226111834
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: History; Observations; Seismology; Earthquakes
Description: Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This book explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The human seismograph; title: The planet in the village: Comrie, Scotland, 1788-1897; title: News of the apocalypse; title: The tongues of seismology: Switzerland, 1855-1912; title: Geographies of hazard; title: The moment of danger; title: Fault lines and borderlands: imperial Austria, 1880-1914; title: What is the earth?; title: The youngest land: California, 1853-1906; title: A true measure of violence: California, 1906-1935.