Editor: Alan Fyfe Published
April 2001 Cover illustration: the cover shows
an engraving by Le Bas of the damage caused by the Lisbon Earthquake of November
1st 1755. This was based on drawings made by Paris and Pedegache, who were in
Lisbon at the time of the eartthquake. This engraving shows the ruin of the St.
Roch Tower. The illustration is published
on the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE) web site
www.eerc.berkeley.edu, and is taken from the NISEE Kozak Collection of Images
of Historical Earthquakes. See article on 'a
new hypothesis for earthquakes' on page 22.
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