Review of von Seebach's earthquake of March 6th, 1872, in central Germany

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Abstract
THE Neapolitan Earthquake R.eport of R.obert Mallet marks an epoch in the history of earthquake investigation.Although the view first casually advanced by Dr. Y oungt and definitely stated by Gay-Lussac,:j: that an earthquake is "a very strong sonorous wave," had been elaborated twenty five years before by Mallet himself in a Memoir on the Dynamics of Earthquakes, § and by William Hopkins in his celebrated R.eport on the Theories of Elevation and Earthquakes, II and although methods for finding analytically the depth of the center of disturbance from seismometric observations had been given in both these papers, and later in Mallet's Earthquake R.eports, yet the remark of Hopkins, that "the roughest approximation to the position of the focus from which such vibrations proceed would constitute a very important geological element," remained as true in 1872 as in 1847, when it was written.In the quarter century which intervened between these two dates, immense labor was bestowed upon earthquake-catalogues by Mallet, Perrey and others, and upon the discussion of these to determine geogmphicallines or areas of disturbance, periodicity in relation to the seasons, the phases of the moon, &c.: and it
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Authors B. K. Emerson
Journal american journal of science
Year 1874
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10.2475/ajs.s3-8.48.405
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https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-8.48.405
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