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ResourceA theory about seismology developed and suggested that you can hit a solid object and waves of energy will travel through the object and cause movement; this was thought to be how an earthquake happens.
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BiographyJohn Winthrop was known as the first person to study an earthquake and often called the creator of seismology.
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BiographyDavid Milne suggested that a machine could be used to measure seismic activity.
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Worst Resource EverThe first seismometer, as inventor David Milne called it, was used in 1841 to record the vibrations of the ground caused by earthquakes.
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ResourceF. Cecchi builds the first time-recording seismograph in Italy. Higher quality instruments are developed by British scientist in Japan, but these early instruments are undamped, and therefore inaccurate after the first few cycles of shaking.
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Bio on Robby An engineer and scientist named Mallet went to Naples, Italy to study the after effects of a large earthquake. His work created some of the earliest theories about seismology which included the idea that earthquakes move outward from a central focal point, and that, by locating the direction that the earthquake came from, the focal points could be located and studied. Mallet also proposed the fir
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BiographyGrove Gilbert discovered earthquakes usually center around a fault line.
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ResourceHorizontal pendulums, used as a seismograph, recorded an earthquake in Japan from Germany.
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ResourceThe first seismograph in North America is installed at Lick Observatory near San Jose, California.
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DefinitionA seismologist named Giuseppe Mercalli created a device to measure the intensity or likelihood of damage that may be caused by an earthquake.
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Information1897 Seismograph was able to record the great San Fransisco Earthquake of 1906.
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GlossaryAndrija Mohorovii discovered a boundary between the earth's crust and mantle.
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DefinitionCharles Richter makes the Richter Scale to determine the magnitude of earthquakes using numerical values.
