Progress in seismology: turning data into evidence about the earth's interior

• Main Author: Miyake, Teru
• Other Authors: Y. Shan
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy; Seismology; Data Collection
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169831
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This chapter gives an account of progress in seismology between 1889 and 1940. I argue that the difficulty of seismology is that seismic wave recordings are extremely information-rich but extremely complex, and progress in seismology during this period was the result of advances in methods for extra...