| Earthquakes in Human History On November 1, 1755--All Saints' Day--a massive earthquake struck Europe's Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy day. Earthquakes in Human History tells the story of that calamity and other epic earthquakes. The authors, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders, recapture the power of their previous book, Volcanoes in Human History . They vividly explain the geological processes responsible for earthquakes, and they describe how these events have had long-lasting aftereffects on human societies and cultures. Their accounts are enlivened with quotations from contemporary literature and from later reports. Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders are the authors of Volcanoes in Human History . Zeilinga de Boer is the Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science at Wesleyan University. Sanders , a Wesleyan graduate and former geologist, is an independent science editor and writer. |