seismology
/sʌɪzˈmɒlədʒi
/noun [mass noun]
The branch of science concerned with earthquakes and related phenomena.However, the era of earthquake seismology as a modern science began in the late 1800s with the installation of sensitive instruments called seismographs....
- Despite tremendous technological advances in earthquake seismology, many fundamental mysteries remain.
- It wasn't until after she completed her formal education that Hutton chose earthquake science, or seismology, as a profession.
Derivatives
seismological
/ adjective ...- From geophysical, geological, and seismological information, seismic zoning maps have been made on a variety of scales.
- These data are used in conjunction with seismological data to infer the chemical composition of the materials in the earth's interior.
- He has served on more than a dozen government committees reviewing various aspects of seismological monitoring.
seismologically
- Bay Area residents and authorities may have been lulled into a false sense of security, because the last century has been relatively quiet for California, seismologically speaking.
seismologist
/ noun ...- The assessment of specific earthquake hazards has involved seismologists, geologists, and earthquake engineers.
- The Richter scale was developed by seismologist Charles Richter in the 1930s to bring consistent, objective criteria to evaluating the size of earthquakes.
- Schwartz co-chaired a team of geologists, seismologists, and geophysicists that released a 2002 report concluding the Bay Area is due for a magnitude 6.7 or greater quake in about 30 years.