Seismology

Seismology

The study of earthquake, seismic sources, and wave propagation through the Earth.

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paleoseismology

Earth science; Seismology

That part of earthquake studies that deals with evidence for earthquakes before instrumental recording of seismic waves or damage from felt reports.

seismology

Earth science; Seismology

The study of earthquakes, seismic sources, and wave propagation through the Earth.

seismotectonics

Earth science; Seismology

The study of earthquakes and their relationships with faults.

hypocentre

Earth science; Seismology

The subsurface location (focus) at which the energy of an earthquake is released. Earthquakes generally occur at depths less than about 30 km, but may occur to a depth of 600 km or more in some ...

stress

Earth science; Seismology

The sudden reduction of stress across the fault plane during rupture.

Of the two sides of a non-vertical fault, the side below the fault plane. It is called the footwall because where inactive faults have been "filled in" with mineral deposits and then mined, this is ...

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Earth science; Seismology

The time scale based on the atomic second but corrected every now and again to keep it in approximate sync with the earth's rotation. The corrections show up as the leap seconds put into UTC - ...