Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scientific investigator or student of earthquake phenomena; one who endeavors, by the aid of seismometric observations, to arrive at the more important facts connected with the origin and distribution of earthquakes.
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- noun A
person who is skilled at, professes, or practicesseismology .
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- noun a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth
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Examples
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Brian Baptie, a seismologist from the British Geological Survey, said: "Indonesia is one of the most seismically active places on Earth, so there's always going to be a chance of a volcano erupting around the same time as an earthquake."
Indonesia tsunami death toll rises Helen Pidd 2010
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Abigail, that seismologist seems to have gotten it exactly backwards.
Cheeseburger Gothic » This is why the Playboy Mansion sits atop a very high hill. 2010
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A one time seismologist who used to predict earthquakes, Schnapp now predicts a mini-market explosion in reaction to her higher than expected jobs numbers, something on the order, she figures, of a Dow rise on Friday of between 150 and 180 points.
Dan Dorfman: Signs of a Nifty Jobs Surprise Dan Dorfman 2010
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A one time seismologist who used to predict earthquakes, Schnapp now predicts a mini-market explosion in reaction to her higher than expected jobs numbers, something on the order, she figures, of a Dow rise on Friday of between 150 and 180 points.
Dan Dorfman: Signs of a Nifty Jobs Surprise Dan Dorfman 2010
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One seismologist said the depth of Wednesday's quake -- 90 miles -- meant damage was unlikely.
Strong 7.0-magnitude quake shakes Peruvian Amazon Reuters 2011
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But it's really semantics right now, Paul Earle, seismologist at the National Earthquake Information Center, said.
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"It's hard to even imagine just how much water was displaced," said Lynda Lastowka, seismologist at the United States Geological Survey.
Earth's Energy Unleashed as Tectonic Plates Shift Gautam Naik 2011
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In March, a Leading Edge journal study led by seismologist Brian Stump of Southern Methodist University in Dallas suggested hydraulic fracturing had triggered small earthquakes in Texas in 2008 and 2009, when flowback water was "deep-injected" onto an earthquake fault, one method of getting rid of wastewater that doesn't let it flow into streams.
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Thomas Heaton, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology, expects a similar large quake along a subduction zone in northwestern North America, at some point in the future.
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One seismologist said the depth of Wednesday's quake -- 90 miles -- meant damage was unlikely.
Strong 7.0-magnitude quake shakes Peruvian Amazon Reuters 2011
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