Historical records of earthquakes for Greenland and Labrador in Moravian Missionary journals

In the general seismological literature, there is scant information regarding historical earthquakes in Greenland and Labrador. This paper seeks to redress this by focusing on earthquakes during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (to the early 1870s) in western Greenland and Labrador, regions b...

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Published in:Journal of seismology 2019-01, Vol.23 (1), p.123-133
Main Authors: Demarée, Gaston R., Ogilvie, Astrid E. J., Kusman, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Earthquakes
Environmental information
Geophysics/Geodesy
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Hydrogeology
Missionaries
Natural phenomena
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Records
Seismic activity
Seismology
Structural Geology
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Summary:In the general seismological literature, there is scant information regarding historical earthquakes in Greenland and Labrador. This paper seeks to redress this by focusing on earthquakes during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (to the early 1870s) in western Greenland and Labrador, regions bordering Davis Strait. The information is drawn primarily from the journals of Danish and Moravian missionaries and missionary newspapers. The missionaries were keen observers of nature and natural phenomena, and their records constitute a reliable source of climatic and environmental information.
ISSN:1383-4649
1573-157X
DOI:10.1007/s10950-018-9796-z