When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
I would have been a geologist.
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
I am a geologist.
Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.
There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'
[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
