📚 Seismology

Reading the earth’s tremors: instruments, wave paths, plate tectonics, and what a seismogram can be made to say.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject seismology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Reflection seismology	Kenneth Harold Waters	1978	11
	Interpretation of three-dimensional seismic data	Alistair R. Brown	1986	6
	Introduction to Seismology	Peter M. Shearer	2009	6
	Physics of Rock Failure and Earthquakes	Mitiyasu Ohnaka	2013	6
	Seismology	John Milne	2014	6
	An introduction to the theory of seismology	K. E. Bullen	1947	5
	Digitizing five-day-recorder tapes on the eclipse and PDP-11/70 UNIX systems	Paul Reasenberg	1980	5
	International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismoloy	William H. K. Lee	2002	5
	Seismic Imaging, Fault Damage and Heal	Yong-Gang Li	2014	5
	In-situ measurements of seismic velocities at twelve locations in the San Francisco Bay region	James F. Gibbs	1975	4
	Earthquake potential and ground motions for the Pillar Mountain landslide, Kodiak, Alaska	George William Moore	1980	4
	An analysis of strong-motion data from a severely damaged structure, the Imperial County Services Building, El Centro, California	Christopher Rojahn	1981	4
	In-situ measurements of seismic velocity at 22 locations in the Los Angeles, California region	Thomas E. Fumal	1982	4
	Pg wave data-base tabulation from recordings made by vertical short-period systems LRSM and New England networks	A. F. Espinosa	1983	4
	Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles collected in 1977 in the western Gulf of Alaska	Dennis M. Mann	1984	4
	In-situ measurements of seismic velocity at 16 locations in the Los Angeles, California region	Thomas E. Fumal	1984	4
	Processed strong-motion records from the Coalinga, California, aftershock of July 22, 1982 0239 UTC	B. L. Silverstein	1985	4
	Seismic Tomography	G. Nolet	1987	4
	Processed strong-motion data for the El Salvador earthquake of June 19, 1982	Kenneth Campbell	1988	4
	Politics of Earthquake Prediction	Richard S. Olson	1989	4
	Time-to-failure analysis of seismicity preceding the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake	C. G. Bufe	1990	4
	PLOTSEGY V1.0	F. N. Zihlman	1992	4
	Volcanic seismology	Paolo Gasparini	1992	4
	Paleoseismology	James P. McCalpin	1996	4
	Strategies for space-geodetic monitoring of infraseismic and subseismic transient deformations	Thomas H. Jordan	1996	4
	Coding and Decoding : Seismic Data	Luc T. Ikelle	2010	4
	A Manual of Seismology	Charles Davison	2014	4
	Seismic Inversion	Yanghua Wang	2016	4
	Earthquake Occurrence	Rodolfo Console	2017	4
	Earthquakes in the light of the new seismology	Clarence E. Dutton	1904	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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