Definition of Seismology. Meaning of Seismology. Synonyms of Seismology

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Definition of Seismology

Seismology
Seismology Seis*mol"o*gy, n. [Gr. ??? an earthquake + -logy.] The science of earthquakes.

Meaning of Seismology from wikipedia

- Seismology (/saɪzˈmɒlədʒi, saɪs-/; from Ancient Gr**** σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific...
- Reflection seismology (or seismic reflection) is a method of exploration geophysics that uses the principles of seismology to estimate the properties...
- Earthquake prediction is a branch of the science of seismology concerned with the specification of the time, location, and magnitude of ****ure earthquakes...
- Centre for Seismology (NCS) is an office of India's Ministry of Earth Sciences. The office monitors earthquakes and conducts seismological research. Specifically...
- first given by Dr. Robert Stoneley (1894–1976), emeritus professor of seismology, Cambridge. Free oscillations of the Earth are standing waves, the result...
- An accretion disk is a structure (often a cir****stellar disk) formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a m****ive central body. The central body...
- Francis Richter and published in his influential textbook Elementary Seismology. Not wanting to have this intensity scale confused with the Richter scale...
- "Strike-slip" redirects here. For other uses, see Strike-slip tectonics In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across...
- The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC; French: Centre Sismologique Euro-Méditerranéen, CSEM) is an international, non-governmental and...
- ML . Because of various shortcomings of the original ML  scale, most seismological authorities now use other similar scales such as the moment magnitude...