Abstract
EARTHQUAKES, once regarded as portents and warnings to mankind, have become an object of human curiosity, and now form a branch of knowledge of which the principal external relations are threefold. They are of interest to the physicist, and their interpretation demands the application of the knowledge he has won; they interest the geologist as an explanation of, and as explained by, his observations of the structure of the earth; and they interest the man of commerce or affairs by their effect on man and on commerce and industry. With these varied outlooks it seems almost impossible that any one man should write a satisfactory handbook of seismology, and recent attempts leave much to be desired in their incomplete or inaccurate treatment of one or more branches of the science. Dr. Knott has confined himself to the physics of earthquakes, a department of their study with which he is well qualified to deal, and of which, more than of any other, an adequate text-book was required.
The Physics of Earthquake Phenomena.
By Dr. C. G. Knott. Pp. xii+283. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.) Price 14s. net.
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The Physics of Earthquake Phenomena . Nature 79, 184–185 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079184b0
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