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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Earthquakes and other earth movements
John Milne
381 pages~7 hr 36 min read36 chapters$4.99
The ground beneath us is never quite still. Milne, a founder of modern seismology, explains how earthquakes are measured and what their motion reveals, from the theory of the shaking to observation in the field. Clear science from a pioneer of the instruments themselves. Understand the tremors that move the solid earth.
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36 chapters
- 1EARTHQUAKES AND OTHER EARTH MOVEMENTS
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
- 5CHAPTER II. SEISMOMETRY.
- 6CHAPTER III. EARTHQUAKE MOTION DISCUSSED THEORETICALLY.
- 7CHAPTER IV. EARTHQUAKE MOTION AS DEDUCED FROM EXPERIMENT.
- 8CHAPTER V. EARTHQUAKE MOTION AS DEDUCED FROM OBSERVATION ON EARTHQUAKES.
- 9CHAPTER VI. EFFECTS PRODUCED BY EARTHQUAKES UPON BUILDINGS.
- 10MEASUREMENTS OF THE RELATIVE MOTION OF PARTS OF A BUILDING AT THE TIME OF AN EARTHQUAKE.
- 11CHAPTER VII. EFFECTS PRODUCED UPON BUILDINGS (continued).
- 12CHAPTER VIII. EFFECTS OF EARTHQUAKES ON LAND.
- 13CHAPTER IX. DISTURBANCES IN THE OCEAN.
- 14Examples of Calculations on Sea Waves.
- 15CHAPTER X. DETERMINATION OF EARTHQUAKE ORIGINS.
- 16CHAPTER XI. THE DEPTH OF AN EARTHQUAKE CENTRUM.
- 17CHAPTER XII. DISTRIBUTION OF EARTHQUAKES IN SPACE AND TIME.
- 18CHAPTER XIII. DISTRIBUTION OF EARTHQUAKES IN TIME (continued).
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