Zhou：Exploring earthquake regularity

Abstract

The 780 BC earthquake in Qishan was the first earthquake clear chronology in Chinese history, and the society paid high attention to it. Ancient thinkers did not stop at the superficial phenomenon of earthquake damage, but took the first primitive step in exploring the laws of earthquakes. Bo Yangfu proposed the concept of Yin and Yang, which was the first time that the objective world was understood in terms of the mutual struggle between two contradictory parties. Yanzi paid attention to the relationship between the stars and the earthquakes, and Chuang Tzu pointed out the characteristics of seismic recurrence. This paper presents the modern scientific understanding and development of earthquake examples in these three respects, and finally, the basic concept of commensurability method is introduced briefly.

Keywords

• qishan earthquake
• the concept of yin and yang
• the relationship between the stars and the earthquakes
• seismic recurrence