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Description of an Apparatus for recording by Photography the Motions of Horizontal Pendulums
Description of an Apparatus for recording by Photography the Motions of Horizontal Pendulums.
On the Observation of Earthquake Waves at great distances from the origin, with special relation to the Great Earthquake of Kumamoto, July 28th, 1889.
On the Observation of Earthquake Waves at great distances from the origin, with special relation to the Great Earthquake of Kumamoto, July 28th, 1889
On a Remarkable Earthquake Disturbance Observed at Strassburg, Nicolaiew, and Birmingham, on June 3, 1893
A history of British seismology
The work of John Milne, the centenary of whose death is marked in 2013, has had a large impact in the development in global seismology. On his return from Japan to England in 1895, he established for the first time a global earthquake recording network, centred on his observatory at Shide, Isle of Wight. His composite bulletins, the âShide Circularsâ developed, in the twentieth century, into the world earthquake bulletins of the International Seismological Summary and eventually the International Seismological Centre, which continues to publish the definitive earthquake parameters of world earthquakes on a monthly basis. In fact, seismology has a long tradition in Britain, stretching back to early investigations by members of the Royal Society after 1660. Investigations in Scotland in the early 1840s led to a number of firsts, including the first network of instruments, the first seismic bulletin, and indeed, the first use of the word âseismometerâ, from which words like âseismologyâ are a back-formation. This paper will present a chronological survey of the development of seismology in the British Isles, from the first written observations of local earthquakes in the seventh century, and the first theoretical writing on earthquakes in the twelfth century, up to the monitoring of earthquakes in Britain in the present day