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First Macroseismic Maps in Southern Poland in the Late 19th Century

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Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland

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The principles of macroseismic earthquake observation and classification in pre-instrumental era are briefly outlined and commented, which—in the course of the 19th century—resulted in making macroseismic intensity maps, forerunners of present maps of seismicity. The achievements in macroseismic earthquake study found their reflections in Central Europe, namely in Poland: for the second half of the 19th century (1858–1901) a total of 19 macroseismic maps were found for three Sudetic events and two Polish border area earthquakes in Saxony and NW Slovakia. They are reproduced and discussed below.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    His pioneering book “Physics of the Earth” was published in Polish in 1909 and then in German in 1911 (Rudzki 1909, 1911).

  2. 2.

    The first in the world geophysical chair, named Chair of Mathematical Geophysics and Meteorology, was created for the previously mentioned M.P. Rudzki at the Jagielonian University in Kraków in 1896.

  3. 3.

    Six maps, namely those presented in Figs. 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.14, 2.15 and 2.18, are deposited in private collection “New Kozak Collection” (NKC) and are protected by copyright Jan Kozák ©.

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Acknowledgments

The author is indebted to Jiří Vaněk of the IG, Prague, for his stimulating suggestions and valuable comments on the paper text. To Petr Jedlička associated with the same Institute the author thanks for his technical assistance, especially as concerns processing of the reproduced maps.

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Kozák, J. (2015). First Macroseismic Maps in Southern Poland in the Late 19th Century. In: Guterch, B., Kozák, J. (eds) Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15446-6_2

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