A Study of Recent Earthquakes is a collection of essays by Charles Davison, a British seismologist. It gives detailed accounts of individual earthquakes rather than a general survey, drawing on reports and observations. It is worth listening to for its clear, historical view of how early seismology studied specific events.
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BY CHARLES DAVISON, Sc.D., F.G.S. AUTHOR OF "THE HEREFORD EARTHQUAKE OF DECEMBER 17TH, 1896." WITH 80 ILLUSTRATIONS London and Newcastle-on-Tyne: THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., LTD. 1905 PREFACE. The present volume differs from a text-book of seismology in giving brief, though detailed, accounts of individual earthquakes rather than a discussion of the phenomena and distribution of earthquakes in general. At the close of his Les Tremblements de Terre, Professor Fouqué has devoted a few chapters to some of the principal earthquakes between 1854 and 1887; and there are also the well-known chapters in Lyell's Principles of Geology
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