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Published January 1984 | Published
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Waves in the Earth: Seismology Comes to Southern California

Abstract

Seismology at Caltech between the two world wars arose from an arranged marriage between two different traditions--a European interest in global earthquakes and an American concern for local earthquakes.

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This paper is an extract from a book in preparation on the history of Caltech; the research is supported by a grant from the Haynes Foundation. I am very grateful to Dr. W. H. K. Lee and J. L. Heilbron for their assistance. Portions of this paper appeared in different form in Earthquake information bulletin, 15 (1983), 177-184.

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