Progress and regression of seismology over the last 300 years

Since time immemorial, people have attributed the causes of aftershocks, which bring numerous troubles to cities and settlements, to God's punishment for people's sins. The terrible earthquake of November 1, 1755 in Lisbon gave rise to a serious study of earthquake processes, and “thanks” to this catastrophe, geophysics took a huge step forward in the form of numerous scientific papers in the wake of this earthquake and the “cherry on the cake” in the form of the remarkable work of Mr. J. Michell (1760), where the source of the earthquake is not God Punishment, and a seismic wave! The second earthquake that had a significant impact on the development of geophysics was the earthquake in San Francisco on April 18, 1906. Unfortunately, the conclusions of the causes of this disaster, unlike the earthquake in Lisbon, had a negative impact on geophysics in the form of the adoption of Mr. Reid's theory of Elastic recoil, which led science into a dead end, from which geophysicists have not been able to find a way out for more than a hundred years. In this article, made in the style of a historical perspective on the development of geophysics, we will show the progress and regression of the Earth sciences over the past 300 years and reveal the real source of earthquake energy, which was pointed out by the genius W. Stukeley in the distant eighteenth century.