Affiliation:
1. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.
Abstract
Abstract
I discuss how much attention different earthquakes get in the scientific and nonscientific literature. For the former, all earthquakes above magnitude 7.5 appear in a scientific article, and the number of articles tends to increase with magnitude. For the latter, most shocks, even if damaging, become largely forgotten in a few decades, though some, such as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, live on in popular memory.
Publisher
Seismological Society of America (SSA)