Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The geophysical science of earthquakes and the mechanical properties of the earth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The branch of science which has for its object the investigation of the causes and effects of earthquakes, and, in general, of all the conditions and circumstances of their occurrence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science of earthquakes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of the
vibration of theEarth 'sinterior caused bynatural andunnatural sources, such asearthquakes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of geology that studies earthquakes
Etymologies
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Examples
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And we have seen quantum improvements in seismology as well as in directional and horizontal drilling, under-sea pipeline construction to name just a few.
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His phobia about earthquakes-how can they call seismology a science?
Wraithbait 2009
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It's a freeware game about reflection seismology, which is imaging underground structures by sending soundwaves into the ground and interpreting the echos.
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The ESA / NASA mission SOHO, observing the Sun since 1995, has paved the way for stellar seismology, which is the approach now extended by COROT to the probing of other stars.
Signs of the Times 2008
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The ESA / NASA mission SOHO, observing the Sun since 1995, has paved the way for stellar seismology, which is the approach now extended by COROT to the probing of other stars.
Signs of the Times 2008
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Because of the inconvenient ice cover, most Antarctic geology can be studied only by remote-sensing methods such as seismology, which involves setting off explosions, bouncing the soundwaves down through the ice to the earth's crust and recording them on their way back up.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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Sergio Barrientos, director of the seismology office at the University of Chile, said Sunday's temblor was itself an aftershock of last year's mega-quake.
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Sergio Barrientos, director of the seismology office at the University of Chile, said Sunday's temblor was itself an aftershock of last year's mega-quake.
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September's earthquake in Christchurch was nearly 10 times stronger than Tuesday's tremor, but made less of an impact because it struck further from the city, says Adam Pascale , head of seismology at Environmental Systems and Services, a private seismic observatory based in the Australian city of Melbourne.
Latest Quake Tests Geological Views David Fickling 2011
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"It seems quite likely that they are related," said Brian Baptie, the survey's head of seismology.
Blackpool earthquake tremors may have been caused by gas drilling 2011
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