Part II dives into the legislative histories of the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. The 39th Congress understood itself as having the power to define the privileges and immunities of national citizenship, which in the Civil Rights Act included benefits typically regarded as nonfederal.
The study of seismic waves is known as seismology, a word derived from a Greek word meaning to shake.. Seismographs are the instruments which record earthquakes. Scientists use these instruments as their principal tool to study seismic waves. They are very sensitive instruments that can detect, measure and record ground vibrations and their intensities during an earthquake. A seismograph is a simple pendulum.
The aftermath of an earthquake, Golcuk, Western Turkey. The power of an earthquake is measured using a seismometer. A seismometer detects the vibrations caused by an earthquake. It plots these vibrations on a seismograph. The strength, or magnitude, of an earthquake is measured using the Richter scale. The Richter scale is numbered 0-10. 1  Earthquakes measuring just one or two on the scale are very common and can happen everyday in places like San Francisco. 2  These earthquakes are so small that people cannot feel them, they can only be picked up by a seismometer.