{"id":1707,"date":"2021-11-19T17:49:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T09:03:26","slug":"precise-location-of-the-m8-earthquake-in-india-in-1897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/2021\/11\/precise-location-of-the-m8-earthquake-in-india-in-1897\/","title":{"rendered":"Precise location of the M8 earthquake in India in 1897"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The late 19th century is the era known as the dawn of seismology: a few stations operate around the world and record waveforms on paper. Can you do real work with those data? Until now these data were considered insufficient or inaccurate. In <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1785\/0320210031\">our <strong>recent paper<\/strong> in <em>The Seismic Record<\/em><\/a>, we have recollected all original data, performed uncertainty analysis, and precisely calculated the seismological epicentre of the devastating earthquake that has hit the Shillong Plateau. The location confirms that the buried Oldham fault, previously suggested based on trigonometric survey data and geodetic modelling, is the source of this earthquake. The alternative scenarios, the earthquake happening on other long faults that are visible at the surface, have been ruled out. The results are likely the oldest instrumental locating of an earthquake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seismosoc.org\/news\/historical-detective-work-locates-epicenter-for-125-year-old-large-indian-earthquake\/\">Outreach summary by the <em>Seismological Society of America<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/temblor.net\/earthquake-insights\/125-year-old-indian-seismic-puzzle-solved-13536\/\">Outreach article on <em>Temblor Earthquake News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/files\/2021\/11\/1897_2wvfrms-1024x387.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/files\/2021\/11\/1897_2wvfrms-1024x387.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/files\/2021\/11\/1897_2wvfrms-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/files\/2021\/11\/1897_2wvfrms-768x290.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/files\/2021\/11\/1897_2wvfrms-1536x581.png 1536w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/files\/2021\/11\/1897_2wvfrms.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Some of the original seismic waveforms recorded at two stations in Europe following the 1897 earthquake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late 19th century is the era known as the dawn of seismology: a few stations operate around the world and record waveforms on paper. Can you do real work with those data? Until now these data were considered insufficient<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}