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... seismology has been concerned with earthquake prediction or even the protection of populations. Seismologists in northern Europe, where destructive earthquakes were unknown, were instrumental in organizing an international association in 1901–03 around the exciting prospect that tracking seismic waves could...

.... For educators, the remedy was moral education to discipline the mind. For pioneering seismologist Imamura Akitsune, what was needed was science education to change behavior by reducing panic. In the end, neither side quite won out. Nevertheless, Borland sees the beginning of a culture of emergency preparedness...

..., earthquakes, which had never been a Japanese obsession, became a major topic as foreign architects, engineers, and scientists debated the seismic qualities of Japanese and foreign construction systems. Key gures included the seismologist John Milne and the architect Josiah Conder, known as the fathers...

... the man of the hour, like the “seismologist-Cassandras” discussed by Greg Clancey, the fortuitous timeliness of his theory giving him special credibility. Responding to an interview in the Asahi in July 2011, he compared humanity to people “on board an airplane for which there is no landing strip” (Beck...

... 1, 1923. In the words of one contemporary, “the quivering, shaking, rattling became in an instant like a raging tempest” (Dahlmann, 1924 , 7). Seismologists recorded over 900 aftershocks over the next few days, and the devastation has been well documented in photographs and written assessment (see...