- region's
seismic activity. The term was
coined by Beno
Gutenberg and
Charles Francis Richter in 1941.
Seismicity is
studied by geophysicists.
Seismicity is...
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Seismic moment is a
quantity used by
seismologists to
measure the size of an earthquake. The
scalar seismic moment M 0 {\displaystyle M_{0}} is defined...
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seismic energy release per unit volume. In its most
general sense, the word
earthquake is used to
describe any
seismic event that
generates seismic waves...
- A
seismic gap is a
segment of an
active fault known to
produce significant earthquakes that has not
slipped in an
unusually long time,
compared with other...
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Seismic retro****ing is the
modification of
existing structures to make them more
resistant to
seismic activity,
ground motion, or soil
failure due to...
- In seismology, a
seismic zone or
seismic belt is an area of
seismicity potentially sharing a
common cause. It can be
referred to as an
earthquake belt...
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Seismic risk or
earthquake risk is the
potential impact on the
built environment and on people's well-being due to ****ure earthquakes.
Seismic risk has...
- In geophysics,
vertical seismic profile (VSP) is a
technique of
seismic measurements used for
correlation with
surface seismic data. The
defining characteristic...
- A
seismic source is a
device that
generates controlled seismic energy used to
perform both
reflection and
refraction seismic surveys. A
seismic source...
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studies of the
environmental effects of
earthquakes such as tsunamis;
other seismic sources such as volcanoes,
plate tectonics, glaciers, rivers,
oceanic microseisms...
