The Great Quake Debate: The Crusader, the Skeptic, and the Rise of Modern Seismology

"Hough presents a well-researched narrative...Interesting read, tracing the history of this seismic and scientific debate."

Choice

"Seismologist Susan Hough's account offers a revealing glimpse of the personalities and issues within America's geologic community in the early twentieth century. But it also can be read as a cautionary tale about science and society."

Natural History Magazine

"Hough's book...touches the history of a subfield of earth science that has been only rarely studied before: seismology."

H-Net

"This book is historical and biographical writing at its very best."

Environment and History

"The Great Quake Debate gives all readers?historians, scientists, and interested non-experts?excellent insights into the unfolding of scientific community and scientific investigations of earthquakes in the United States, a topic crucial to public and private life then, and still."

Pacific Historical Review