How to Use seismology in a Sentence

seismology

noun
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  • But the science of seismology is simply too young to stop the next major quake, or the legion of quakes after that, from killing many thousands of people.
    — Robin George Andrews, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2023
  • All of this goes to show that seismology isn't just useful for picking up earthquake recordings, Fan said.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Finding more ways to use fin whale seismology could mean adding less to the cacophony.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Bayrom Nejad -- the head of Iran's seismology center -- confirmed the two quakes struck between the towns of Laft and Dargahan.
    — Ramin Mostaghim and Hira Humanyun, CNN, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Water in Taal's crater boiled before and after its eruption, a video posted on the Facebook page of the seismology agency showed.
    — NBC News, 1 July 2021
  • One video posted on Instagram showed users how to locate the grid pattern on the seismology website.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2021
  • On Earth, a network of seismology ground stations identify the epicenter and strength of quakes.
    — Chris Wright, Wired, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The InSight lander's primary mission was to study the effects of seismology and earthquakes on Mars.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 21 Dec. 2022
  • On Earth, a network of seismology ground stations uses sensors to detect these waves, and to identify the epicenter and strength of quakes.
    — Chris Wright, Wired, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Based on his brief research on the matter, Ziegler said frost quakes do not always register on seismology equipment.
    — Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Together, the trio will be studying the seismology of the Moon and providing the polar region's first on-site thermal measurements.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Predicting earthquakes is the holy grail of seismology.
    — Annie Sneed, Scientific American, 15 Feb. 2017
  • It was built in the 1920s as California's first seismology station — and is said to be where Charles Richter developed research that turned into the Richter magnitude scale.
    — latimes.com, 5 July 2019
  • The realm of extraterrestrial seismology is a small place.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2022
  • Jones, the doyenne of California seismology, said the odds were favorable for stronger temblors in the area, including a 50 percent chance that the region could see a shaker measuring 6.0 or greater.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 7 July 2019
  • But a video produced by a group of seismology researchers says that people in more distant areas could get as much as 70 seconds’ warning before the strongest shaking reaches them.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2019
  • The last big one California occupies a central place in the history of seismology.
    — Richard Aster, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Nunn is also trying to use interpolation to correct blips in the seismology data, where errors can affect frame counts, time stamps, and data records.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2018
  • The towns of Agoncillo and Laurel, situated on the lake surrounding the Taal volcano, were in danger from eruption and volcanic tsunami, the seismology agency said.
    — Reuters, CNN, 1 July 2021
  • So, scientists wondered, why not re-create Pluto’s seismology to find out?
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2020
  • A few thousand miles away, InSight will continue to record quakes and reveal the inner workings of the first rocky planet, other than our own, that scientists have been able to characterize with seismology.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 22 July 2021
  • It's expected that scientists present a broader view of their research in papers, said Vadim Levin, a seismology professor at Rutgers.
    — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The most beneficial part of those 30-60 seconds, says CalTech engineering and seismology professor Tom Heaton, is simply the heads-up.
    — and Stephanie Becker, CNN, 30 Sep. 2017
  • But finding detailed evidence of major quakes prior to the dawn of modern seismology in the 20th century can be extremely difficult.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
  • After all, even after a century or more of studying Golden State seismology and geology, the destructive 1994 Northridge earthquake occurred on a fault that didn’t even appear on seismic maps.
    — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Lucy Jones, a seismologist with the California Institute of Technology’s seismology lab, tweeted that the temblor was part of the sequence that produced the magnitude 6.4 quake.
    — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 5 July 2019
  • These networks use seismology machines to detect and analyze tremors — and plug into a system that sends notifications to people a few seconds before an earthquake hits.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Stephen Hicks, a seismology researcher at the University of Southampton, England, believes erosion of soil is the reason behind this particular fissure.
    — Susmita Baral, Teen Vogue, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Fortunately, very little of a cable’s capacity would have to be commandeered in service of seismology.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 15 June 2018
  • Eddy Sanchez, director of the country's seismology and volcanology institute, said the flows reached temperatures of about 1,300 degrees.
    — NBC News, 4 June 2018

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