Origin of Seismology
Seismology began in Japan when a British scientist experienced an earthquake in Japan for the first time in his life:
John Milne (30 December 1850 – 31 July 1913[1]) [2] was the British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph....
Career in Japan (1875–1895)
Milne was hired by the Meiji government of the Empire of Japan as a foreign advisor and professor of mining and geology at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo from 8 March 1876, where he worked under Henry Dyer and with William Edward Ayrton and John Perry. Partly from a sense of adventure and partly because he suffered from seasickness, he travelled overland across Siberia taking three months to reach Tokyo. In 1880, Sir James Alfred Ewing, Thomas Gray and John Milne, all British scientists working in Japan, began to study earthquakes following a very large tremor which struck the Yokohama area that year. They founded the Seismological Society of Japan (SSJ).[6] The society funded the invention of seismographs to detect and measure the strength of earthquakes. Although all three men worked as a team on the invention and use of seismographs, John Milne is generally credited with the invention of the horizontal pendulum seismograph in 1880.[7] Milne's instruments permitted him to detect different types of earthquake waves, and estimate velocities. In addition, the foreign professors trained Japanese students including Seikei Sekiya who would become, at the Imperial University, the first professor of seismology at any university in the world and his successor, Fusakichi Omori[8] who refined Milne's instruments to detect and record finer vibrations.
Order of the Rising Sun
In June, 1895, Milne was commanded to attend a meeting with His Imperial Majesty Emperor Mutsuhito and following this, returned to England. Soon after his arrival he learned that the Emperor had conferred upon him a rare distinction, The Third Grade of the Order of the Rising Sun and a life pension of 1,000 yen. This was in recognition of Professor Milne's contributions to seismology during his long residence in Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milne
So, although the Japanese people had experienced so many earthquakes, they did not study the natural phenomena in a scientific manner in a modern sense. But a British scientist the Imperial Government hired became the pathfinder for the modern science seismology as he encountered a big earthquake in Japan. As the UK is a country with less earthquakes, it is very interesting that a British scientist became the father of seismology.
In addition, John Milne married a Japanese woman. He returned to England with his Japanese wife to continue his study on earthquakes. However, after his death, the Japanese widow eventually returned to Japan.
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http://www.niitsuma-geolab.net/archives/47
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