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Seismology

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

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Seismology

accelerometer

Earth science; Seismology

A sensor whose output is almost directly proportional to ground acceleration. The conventional strong-motion accelerometer is a simple, nearly critically damped oscillator having a natural frequency ...

impulse response function

Earth science; Seismology

A mathematical representation of an impulsive signal. By taking the Fourier transform of the impulse response of the system, you obtain the frequency response function.

linear filter system

Earth science; Seismology

A means of describing seismic waves (ground displacement) in terms of the source function, propagating function and the instrument recording function.

airy phase

Earth science; Seismology

A local minimum at 20 sec and 200 sec on group velocity curves that result from a large amount of energy arriving at the same time.

seismoscope

Earth science; Seismology

A simple seismograph recording on a plate with time marks.

swarm of earthquakes

Earth science; Seismology

A series of earthquakes in the same locality, no one earthquake being of outstanding size.

geodimeter

Earth science; Seismology

A surveying instrument to measure the distance between two points on the Earth's surface.

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