Development of seismology

By AJL1101

  • David Milne

    David Milne
    David Milne came up with the idea of a machine that could measure seismic activy.

  • Robert Mallet

    Robert Mallet
    Robert Mallet proposed the theory that earthquakes moved outward from a main point, or focus.

  • Grove Gilbert

    Grove Gilbert
    Grove Gilbert made the discovery that earthquakes happen on a fault line.

  • First U.S seismograph

    First U.S seismograph

  • Giuseppe Mercalli

    Giuseppe Mercalli
    Made a machine that measured the intensity of an earthquake.

  • Harry Reid

    Harry Reid made a hypotheses that earthquakes were caused by built up pressure on faults.

  • Andrija Mohorovii

    Andrija Mohorovii
    Andrija Mohorovii the Moho boundary, a boundary between the Earths crust and the mantle

  • Charles Richter

    Charles Richter
    Charles Richter created the Richter scale, a scale that measures the intensity of earthquakes.