Seismology (/saɪzˈmɒlədʒi, saɪs-/; from Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific...
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Reflection seismology (or seismic reflection) is a method of exploration geophysics that uses the principles of seismology to estimate the properties...
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Seismic wave (redirect from Body wave (seismology))
first given by Dr. Robert Stoneley (1894–1976), Emeritus Professor of Seismology, Cambridge. Free oscillations of the Earth are standing waves, the result...
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Coronal seismology is a technique of studying the plasma of the Sun's corona with the use of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and oscillations. Magnetohydrodynamics...
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Forensic seismology is the forensic use of the techniques of seismology to detect and study distant phenomena, particularly explosions, including those...
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The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS, Tagalog: [ˈfivolks]; Tagalog: Surian ng Pilipinas sa Bulkanolohiya at Sismolohiya) is...
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Earthquake prediction (redirect from Nowcasting (seismology))
Earthquake prediction is a branch of the science of seismology concerned with the specification of the time, location, and magnitude of future earthquakes...
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The Seismological Society of America (SSA) is an international scientific society devoted to the advancement of seismology and the understanding of earthquakes...
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Accretion disk (redirect from Disko-seismology)
An accretion disk is a structure (often a circumstellar disk) formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a massive central body. The central body...
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Citizen Seismology is a citizen science research approach in seismology, where citizens are involved in scientific projects and work side by side with...
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Marsquake (redirect from Martian seismology)
Lazarewicz, A. R.; Kovach, R. L.; Knight, T. C. D. (September 30, 1977). "Seismology on Mars". Journal of Geophysical Research. 82 (28): 22. doi:10.1029/JS082i028p04524...
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The Seismological Society of Japan (日本地震学会, Nihon jishin Gakkai) or SSJ is a learned society (professional association) with the goal of advancing the...
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Francis Richter and published in his influential textbook Elementary Seismology. Not wanting to have this intensity scale confused with the Richter magnitude...
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Lunar seismology is the study of ground motions of the Moon and the events, typically impacts or moonquakes, that excite them. Several seismographic measuring...
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The U.S. National Science Foundation's Seismological Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (NSF SAGE) is a distributed, multi-user national facility...
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The National Seismological Service (Spanish: Servicio Sismológico Nacional, SSN) is a seismological organization in Mexico that studies and records earthquake...
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of Volcanology and Seismology. Retrieved November 13, 2015. "Banahaw Volcano". Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. Archived from the original...
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volcanoes listed as active by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). Twenty-one of these have had historical eruptions. The three...
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scale used and developed by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) to measure the intensity of earthquakes. It was developed as...
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List of earthquakes in Japan (redirect from Seismological history of Japan)
"Status of historical seismology in Japan" (30 pages); Earthquake catalogue 47 (2–3); Collections: 04.06.05. Historical seismology; Annals of Geophysics...
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Tornado (section Sound and seismology)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tornadoes. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pictures of tornadoes. A tornado is a violently rotating column...
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ML . Because of various shortcomings of the original ML scale, most seismological authorities now use other similar scales such as the moment magnitude...
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Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) is a earthquake engineering and research center in Gandhinagar, India. In the aftermath of 2001 Gujarat earthquake...
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Fault (geology) (redirect from Fault (seismology))
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass...
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The International Seismological Centre (ISC) is a non-governmental, nonprofit organisation charged with the final collection, definitive analysis and...
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A Very Close Look at a Moderate Earthquake near Sudbury, Ontario. Seismological Research Letters 79:1 January/February 2008. pg. 119 Canadian & American...
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New Delhi (section Seismology)
New Delhi (/ˈnjuː ˈdɛ.li/ , Hindi: [ˈnəiː ˈdɪlːiː], ISO: Naī Dillī) is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT)...
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German Geophysical Society (redirect from German Seismological Society)
Leipzig in 1922 on the initiative of seismology professor Emil Wiechert, initially under the name German Seismological Society. It was renamed to its current...
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Earthquake (category Seismology)
as "Richter magnitude" or "Richter scale", standard practice by most seismological authorities is to express an earthquake's strength on the moment magnitude...
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Fluvial seismology is the application of seismological methods to understand river processes, such as discharge, erosion, and streambed evolution. Flowing...
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