Earthquake Milne

Many countries lay claim to be the home
of the ‘father of modern seismology’,
in reality many scientists working
independently or collaboratively in several
different countries have contributed to the
foundations of the science of seismology.
In the late 19th and early 20th century some
important contributions were made by the
British scientist John Milne, who came to
seismology by a serendipitous route while
working as a lecturer in mining
engineering in Tokyo. Milne’s life was a
colourful adventure of travel, hard work
and single-minded determination, which
ensured that his contributions have had a
long-lasting impact, the ripples of which
have propagated forwards in time to the
present day.