People in Seismology

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  • Chan Heng, Chinese Scienist
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    Chan Heng, Chinese Scienist

    Heng invented the first seismoscope an instrument that could index the occurrence of an earthquake.
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    Important People in Seismology

  • Robert Mallet, Ireland

    Robert Mallet, Ireland

    Mallet presented to the Royal Irish Academy his paper, "On the Dynamics of Earthquakes",[ which is considered to be one of the basics of modern seismology. He is also credited with making the word "seismology"
  • Gilbert Grove, American

    Gilbert Grove, American

    Gilbert discovered that earthquakes usually center around a fault line.
  • John Milne

    John Milne

    Milne an English seismologist created the 'horizontal pendulum seismograph.'
  • Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian

    Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian

    This scale uses the observations of the people who experienced the earthquake to estimate its intensity.
  • Harry Fielding Reid, American

    Harry Fielding Reid, American

    Harry F. Reid, a geogolist that originated the "elastic rebound" theory of earthquakes on the basis of the 1906 data from the Great San Francisco Earthquake.
  • Charles F. Richter, American

    Charles F. Richter, American

    In 1935, Richter developed the 'Richter Scale.' It is also known as Richter magnitude scale. It is used to measure the intensity of the earthquake.