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| Author(s): | A. Guidoboni and J. Ebel |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780521837958 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 590pp | |
| Price: | £80.00, $160.00 |
| Review Date: | 20 February 2009 |
| Review: | This book provides a guide to carrying out historical seismology research into important earthquakes of the past. The authors point out the successful strategies and results of such research, as well as the pitfalls and mistakes. The book is divided into three parts. The first defines historical seismology and its importance. The second part looks at issues concerning the interpretation of historical earthquakes and tsunami data (written historical sources, types of scientific sources, earthquake cartography etc.), pointing out the potential problems as well as methods of dating events. The last part gives practical guidelines for analysing the data: planning, processing records, interpretation of records, and examining archaeological sites. It also looks at how to derive physical parameters from historical data. |