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en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United Kingdom: Chatto and Windus, 1886.
Credits
Emmanuel Ackerman, Krista Zaleski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
Release date
2022-12-19
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1850–1913
Best known as a pioneer of modern seismology, this English geologist helped turn the study of earthquakes into a practical science. His work in Japan and later on the Isle of Wight shaped early earthquake monitoring around the world.
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