Seismologist Inspirational Quotes (29)

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.