How to Use seismograph in a Sentence

seismograph

noun
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  • The data come from a seismograph located near the middle of the park.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • Yell said the city of Huntsville put a seismograph in his yard to monitor the explosions.
    — Scott Turner | , al, 25 July 2023
  • Imagine a seismograph, but one that records the movement of water rather than of earth.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Those were replaced with three new seismographs on Jan. 16.
    — Segann March, Cincinnati.com, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Soon enough, their screens were filled with charts and numbers—reds, yellows, greens—that zigzagged up and down like an E.K.G. or digital seismograph.
    — Nick Bilton, The Hive, 13 Apr. 2018
  • In 150 years, the soundings of Britons' feelings for the monarchy have fluctuated like a seismograph chart.
    — Patt Morrison, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • At each network node, any tremor, or even a rock slipping, could trigger a measurement from the seismograph.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • On Mars, there's only a single seismograph for the entire planet.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The seismograph is about the size of shoe box and requires minimal electricity.
    — Lisa P. White, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The Viking seismographs were mounted on top of the spacecraft, which made their readings less-than-entirely reliable.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 May 2018
  • Earthquakes of a magnitude of 2.5 or less are usually not felt but can be detected by a seismograph.
    — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2023
  • This was dangerous business; to this day, any sneeze my dad unleashes will show up on faraway seismographs.
    — Drew Magary, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
  • So many fans were jumping up and down and yelling so loudly the activity registered on a nearby seismograph.
    — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Although the earthquake had a significant magnitude, the readings, which measures the amplitude of the wave forms, or how much fault is moving, on the seismograph don't tell the full story of the strength of the earthquake.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The principal instruments on board the spacecraft include the first ever seismographs placed directly on the surface of Mars.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 May 2018
  • For the most part quakes that register 2.5 magnitude or less go unnoticed and are only recorded by a seismograph.
    — al, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Twenty years ago, researchers used seismograph data and proposed the existence of a fifth layer.
    — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The Point Loma seismograph station reported that the quake was between the fifth and sixth intensity here in a scale in which the 10th intensity is the maximum.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Not so in soloist Paul Jacobs’ magisterial playing of the organ part, which built to a thrilling roar of low pedal sonority in the final pages that must have set off every seismograph in the state.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2018
  • In principle, that power could help us to diagnose any early-stage disease, in the same way the subtle squiggles of a seismograph can give us early warnings of an earthquake.
    — Christie Aschwanden, Wired, 10 Jan. 2020
  • How to Measure an Earthquake Current detection methods leverage a network of seismographs around the globe.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In a sense, Curiosity is the older sibling to InSight, the new rover that recently deployed a seismograph into the planet's surface.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2018
  • The decibel level at Carver-Hawkeye Arena had to have registered on a seismograph machine.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Designed to detect earthquakes, the seismographs were sensitive enough to pick up on pressure fluctuations caused by waves pounding shores miles away.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The Raspberry Shake, a simple seismograph based on Raspberry Pi hardware.
    — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Devices such as an electroencephalogram (EEG) — a net of electrodes placed on the scalp — can detect these fluctuations and graph them as sinuous lines similar to those drawn by a seismograph.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
  • Not long after, in the early 1980s, Grossmann and the French geophysicist Jean Morlet began using techniques from quantum mechanics to study seismic traces, the wavy curves plotted by a seismograph.
    — New York Times, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Besides the seismograph, the Geoazur researchers have transformed one of the optical fibers of the 42-km-long main electro-optical cable into a giant array of seismo-acoustic sensors.
    — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2023
  • During the Apollo 11 moon landing, coated cable manufactured by the company was used to attach a seismograph to the lunar lander.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Soon the electromagnetic seismograph made Palmieri famous among global elites.
    — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2023

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