Determination of the Times of Historical Earthquakes in the Pre-Standard Time Era

Other| March 01, 2007 Determination of the Times of Historical Earthquakes in the Pre-Standard Time Era Kenneth B. S. Burke Kenneth B. S. Burke Department of Geology University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3 Canada kbsb@nbnet.nb.ca Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Kenneth B. S. Burke Department of Geology University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3 Canada kbsb@nbnet.nb.ca Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Online ISSN: 1938-2057 Print ISSN: 0895-0695 © 2007 by the Seismological Society of America Seismological Research Letters (2007) 78 (2): 344–346. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.78.2.344 Article history First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth B. S. Burke; Determination of the Times of Historical Earthquakes in the Pre-Standard Time Era. Seismological Research Letters 2007;; 78 (2): 344–346. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.78.2.344 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search Abstract Before the wide distribution of standard time signals by telegraph and radio in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the reported times of earthquakes usually were based on times established from observations of local apparent noon on a sundial. This paper proposes to use the calculation of the actual standard sun transit time to correct these local times of earthquakes so they may be listed with universal times (UT). Examples are shown of how this method would apply to two nineteenth-century earthquakes in eastern North America. You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.