earthquake
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earth-quaking · earthquakes · oscillations of the earth · the law of earthquakes
in the texts
Vitae philosophorum
Earthquakes, explained by wind imprisoned underground setting the earth in motion, or by the propagation of movement from collapsing foundations.
And the earth either takes in this wind from without or from the falling in of foundations, when undermined, into subterranean caverns, thus raising a wind in the imprisoned air.
And there are many other causes to which these oscillations of the earth may be due.
De Rerum Natura
Seismic tremors explained naturalistically as caused by subterranean wind, caverns, and collapsing ground.
Now come, and what the law of earthquakes is
Against the lofty grottos, then the earth
Therefore, earth,