Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Past: A Guide to Techniques in Historical Seismology

ISBN-13: 9781108462051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 602 str.

Emanuela Guidoboni; John E. Ebel

Opis

An important reference guide to the latest research methodologies for studying historical earthquakes and tsunamis.

Spis treści

Part I. Defining Historical Seismology: 1. What is historical seismology?; 2. The importance of historical earthquake and tsunami data; Part II. Issues Concerning the Interpretation of Historical Earthquake and Ttsunami Data: 3. Written historical sources and their use; 4. Types of scientific sources; 5. Other types of sources; 6. Potential problems in historical records; 7. Determination of historical earthquakes: dates and times; Part III. Practical Guidelines for the Analysis of Historical Earthquake Data: 8. Planning the goals of the analysis of historical earthquakes; 9. Processing historical records; 10. From interpretation of historical records to historical seismic scenarios; 11. Traces of earthquakes in archaeological sites and in monuments; 12. Deriving earthquake source and shaking parameters from historical data; 13. Cooperation in historical seismology research; Index.