Emanuela Guidoboni, John E. Ebel

Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Past

A Guide to Techniques in Historical Seismology

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 604
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1209g
• ISBN-13: 9780521837958
• ISBN-10: 0521837952
• Artikelnr.: 24264076

Autorenporträt

Emanuela Guidoboni is a senior scientist and head of the historical seismology and volcanology unit at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Bologna, Italy. From 1983 to 2007, she served as director of SGA-Storia Geofisica Ambiente, Bologna, a company specializing in the study of earthquakes and other historical environmental phenomena. A historian by training, Dr Guidoboni is a leading expert in the historical seismicity of the Mediterranean region, and the author of a number of important historical earthquake catalogues and more than 100 scientific publications.

Inhaltsangabe

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.