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FOR very many years past in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, earthquakes had been recorded, while a few private individuals collected and analysed earthquake statistics. These, however, were the days of seismoscopes and the old seismology. The new seismology did not come until macroseisms had been measured and teleseisms had been discovered. With their arrival new lines of physical, and particularly geophysical, research were opened for exploitation. Commencing in Japan, the desire to record and discuss the felt and unfelt palpitations of our earth spread like an epidemic round the world. In 1880 the Seismological Society of that country was founded, and the twenty volumes which it issued contain initiatives for very many of the investigations carried out since that date. When this society ceased to exist the Japanese Government established an Earthquake Investigation Committee, which up to date has published more than eighty quarto volumes.
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MILNE, J. The New Seismology . Nature 91, 190–191 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091190b0
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