The aftershocks of the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755 were not only physical: the scientific investigations undertaken in its wake formed the basis of the science of seismology. Published in ...

The 1755 earthquake of Lisbon had such a profound ... We now associate these thinkers with the Age of Enlightenment, a period of history that led to the French Revolution and the American War ...

As the world's tectonic plates crash, grind and dive into one another, they release their pent-up energy in giant earthquakes that can rock the ground, trigger volcanic eruptions, move mountains ...

xl. p. 294, is of special interest to us in Japan, countenancing as it does the conjecture that the very peculiar earthquake felt and registered here on April 18 was the result of a disturbance of ...

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The earthquake took place along a fault line that ... “Many of the towns feature stone construction including a deep history of architecture dating back to Roman – and in some cases Etruscan ...