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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Richter Charles Francis Richter (April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985), was an American seismologist, born in Hamilton, Ohio. He is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale, which quantifies the size of earthquakes. He first used the scale...

http://www.bookrags.com/Richard_Dixon_Oldham Richard Dixon Oldham ( 1858-1936 ) Richard Dixon Oldham (July 31, 1858 – July 15, 1936) was a British geologist who, in 1906, argued that the Earth must have a molten interior as S waves were not able to travel through liquids nor through the Earth's inte...

http://www.agu.org/inside/awards/lehmann2.html INGE LEHMANN (1888-1993) (May 13, 1888 – February 21, 1993), Fellow of the Royal Society (London) 1969, was a Danish seismologist who, in 1936, argued that the Earth must not only have a molten interior, but a solid core at the center, which deflects P ...

BENO GUTENBERG (1889-1960) Beno Gutenberg was born in Darmstadt, Germany, on June 4, 1889. He completed all of his university education at the University of Göttingen, receiving his Ph.D. there in 1911. As a student, he chose geophysics as his field of endeavor and joined the Geophysical Institute, ...

http://www.llnl.gov/tid/lof/documents/pdf/318857.pdf Seismic Monitoring for the United Arab Emirates Arthur Rodgers and Keith Nakanishi Earth Sciences Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551 April 11, 2005 Disclaimer This document was prepared as an account of work spons...

http://www.eaee.boun.edu.tr/bulletins/v16n1/algiers.htm SEISMIC RISK REDUCTION AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN ALGERIA Dr.Mohamed Belazougui INTRODUCTION The major October 10, 1980 Earthquake (M=7.2) that stroke the town of El Asnam and its surroundings, just 25 years after 1954 Earthquake (M=6.7), has t...

http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/schedules/experiment_profiles/exp2004/0455North_Iraq_Network.html THE NORTHERN IRAQ SEISMOLOGICAL NETWORK EXPERIMENT 2004-2007 • Experiment Name: North Iraq Network • PI: Hafidh A. A. Ghalib • Email: hghalib@multimax.com • Institution: Multimax, Inc. • Start_Date: 9/1/200...

John Milne (1850-1913) Biographical Sketch John Milne was, perhaps, the greatest individual contributor to observational earthquake investigations of all time. He was an English geologist and mining engineer, but his earthquake investigations were largely, especially in early years, carried out in J...

JAMES B. MACELWANE, S.J. (1883-1956) By: Brian J. Mitchell Saint Louis University St. Louis, Missori James B. Macelwane was born on the northern shore of Sandusky Bay near Port Clinton, Ohio, on September 28, 1883. He was the second of nine children born to Alexander Macelwane, a fisherman and farme...

Geophysical Freeware of Interest to Geophysicists http://www.infp.ro/index.html E:\RESEARCH\GEOLOGIC RESEARCH\software packages.htm NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EARTH PHYSICS BUCHAREST,MAGURELE, P.O.Box MG 2 There is an increasing number of freeware applications which may be of interest to the practicing ...

GLOBAL STRAIN RATE MAPS [ W. Holt, Chairman A. J. Haines, Vice-Chairman G. Blewitt, Vice-Chairman The mission of this ILP Project is to determine a globally self-consistent strain rate and velocity field model that explains geodetic and geologic observations. The overall mission also includes: contr...

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http://www.geo.uib.no/jordskjelv/index.php?topic=history&lang=en MILESTONES IN SEISMOLOGY IN THE WORLD History of seismology Far back in history, people have tried to explain why earthquakes occur. The Chinese were the first to build an instrument for registering earthquakes. This and following even...

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/seismology/references.html THE EARLY HISTORY OF SEISMOMETRY TO 1900 by James Dewey and Perry Byerly Abstract The earliest seismoscope was invented in 132 A.D., by Chang Hêng. Seismoscopes of limited effectiveness were used by Bina and others in the eighteenth century....

What is EarthScope? http://www.earthscope.org/overview/index.php EarthScope is a bold undertaking to apply modern observational, analytical and telecommunications technologies to investigate the structure and evolution of the North American continent and the physical processes controlling earthquake...