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Seismology
The study of earthquake, seismic sources, and wave propagation through the Earth.
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source
Earth science; Seismology
(1) The geologic structure that generates a particular earthquake. (2) The explosion used to generate acoustic or seismic waves.
taper
Earth science; Seismology
A function whose corners are less sharp resulting in less distortion of the function. Taper is used to help minimize the decay of the signal into the noise that result from having a finite record ...
torsional mode
Earth science; Seismology
A spherical mode where it depends only on the shear-velocity structure and thus are confined to motions the solid shell of the mantle.
elastic stress
Earth science; Seismology
A measure of the forces acting on a body in units of force per unit area.
response spectrum
Earth science; Seismology
A curve showing the mathematically computed maximum response of a set of simple damped harmonic oscillators of different natural frequency(ies) to a particular record of earthquake ground ...
reflect
Earth science; Seismology
To bounce back from a surface that represents an acoustic impedance contrast.
