The or SSJ is a

learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an discipline (academia), academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and s ...

(

professional association A professional association (also called a professional body, professional organization, or professional society) usually seeks to advocacy, further a particular profession, the interests of individuals and organisations engaged in that professio ...

) with the goal of advancing the understanding of earthquakes and other seismic phenomena.

History

John Milne John Milne (30 December 1850 – 31 July 1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph. Biography Milne was born in Liverpool, England, the only child of John Milne of Milnrow, and at first raised in ...

joined

James Alfred Ewing Sir James Alfred Ewing MInstitCE (27 March 1855 − 7 January 1935) was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, '' h ...

Thomas Lomar Gray Thomas Lomar Gray (4 February 1850 – 19 December 1908) was a Scottish engineer noted for his pioneering work in seismology. Early life Born in Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland, Gray graduated in 1878 from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in en ...

and

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (October 4, 1841 – March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist. He was the first professor hired at Ohio State University in 1873 and the superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ...

in founding the Seismological Society in 1880. These men were teaching at the Imperial College of Tokyo (now called the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

) and were

foreign advisors to the government in Meiji period Japan Foreign may refer to: Government * Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries * Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in many countries ** Foreign Office, a department of the UK government ** Foreign office and foreign minister * United S ...

(''o-yatoi gaikokujin''). The founding president of the society was

Hattori Ichizo was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from July to December 1898. He was also governor of Iwate Prefecture (1891–1898), Nagasaki Prefecture (1898–1900) and Hyōgo Prefecture (1900–1916). He was the fi ...

Publications

The organization publishes the abbreviated at "J Seismol Soc Jpn". The publication is also known as ''Zisin'', which is a syllabic abbreviation. The SSJ also sponsors the journal ''

Earth, Planets and Space ''Earth, Planets and Space'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media and Terra Scientific Publishing Company on behalf of five Japanese learned societies: * Seismological Society of Japan, * ...

''.

Notes

References

* Clancey, Gregory. (2006). ''Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930.'' Berkeley: University of California Press.
OCLC 219039402
* Davison, Charles. (2014). ''The Founders of Seismology.'' Cambridge University Press.

* Robinson, Andrew. (2016). ''Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilizations.'' Thames & Hudson.

External links

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