@article{ref1,
title="Ancient views concerning earthquakes",
journal="The Independent practitioner",
year="1882",
author="No Author(s) Listed, ",
volume="3",
number="6",
pages="e420-e420",
abstract="Anaxagoras, the Rhodian, held that earthquakes are nothing but a sort of cosmic flatulence--winds which have strayed into caverns, where they •cannot find an outlet. Aristotle ascribes them to vapors generated by the infiltration of water through the fissures of a rocky sea-bottom ; and Pliny, to the pressure of air confined in deep caves, and reacting against the collapse of superincumbent rock-strata. But the most ingenious ex planation is offered by St. Thomas of Aquinas. Earthquakes, he sug gests, may be caused by the struggles of defunct misbelievers, trying (by a simultaneous stampede, perhaps) to escape from the pit of torment.-- Popular Science Monthly.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1069-0433",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}