The earthquake observers : disaster science from Lisbon to Richter / Deborah R. Coen.
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 ear...
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Table of 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.