LEADER 03890nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910957993103321 005 20240313064216.0 010 $a9781283733281 010 $a1283733285 010 $a9780226111834 010 $a0226111830 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226111834 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276212 035 $a(EBL)1050244 035 $a(OCoLC)815288204 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755541 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12360727 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755541 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10730229 035 $a(PQKB)10255316 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000099430 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1050244 035 $a(DE-B1597)522666 035 $a(OCoLC)1042318745 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226111834 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1050244 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10618039 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL404578 035 $a(Perlego)1852360 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276212 100 $a20120417d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe earthquake observers $edisaster science from Lisbon to Richter /$fDeborah R. Coen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (358 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780226111810 311 08$a0226111814 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tONE. The Human Seismograph -- $tTWO. The Planet in the Village: Comrie, Scotland, 1788-1897 -- $tTHREE. News of the Apocalypse -- $tFOUR. The Tongues of Seismology: Switzerland, 1855-1912 -- $tFIVE. Geographies of Hazard -- $tSIX. The Moment of Danger -- $tSEVEN. Fault Lines and Borderlands: Imperial Austria, 1880-1914 -- $tEIGHT. What Is the Earth? -- $tNINE. The Youngest Land: California, 1853-1906 -- $tTEN. A True Measure of Violence: California, 1906-1935 -- $tConclusion -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aEarthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth century, a scientific description of an earthquake was built of stories-stories from as many people in as many situations as possible. Sometimes their stories told of fear and devastation, sometimes of wonder and excitement. In The Earthquake Observers, Deborah R. Coen acquaints readers not only with the century's most eloquent seismic commentators, including Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Karl Kraus, Ernst Mach, John Muir, and William James, but also with countless other citizen-observers, many of whom were women. Coen explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences. Seismology abandoned this project of citizen science with the introduction of the Richter Scale in the 1930s, only to revive it in the twenty-first century in the face of new hazards and uncertainties. The Earthquake Observers tells the history of this interrupted dialogue between scientists and citizens about living with environmental risk. 606 $aEarthquakes$xObservations$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSeismology$xHistory 615 0$aEarthquakes$xObservations$xHistory 615 0$aSeismology$xHistory. 676 $a551.209/034 700 $aCoen$b Deborah R$0813912 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910957993103321 996 $aThe earthquake observers$94366115 997 $aUNINA