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USGS · 70175939

The beginnings of seismology in North America

Abstract

The study of earthquakes advanced somewhat more slowly in North America than it did in Europe and Japan. J.D. Whitney, professor of geology at Harvard University and former State Geologist of California, studied the Owens Valley, Calif., earthquake of 1872 and reported on it that same year.

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1979. The beginnings of seismology in North America. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70175939

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