seismometer|seismometers in English

noun

[seis·mom·e·ter || saɪz'mɑmɪtə(r) /-'mɒm-]

seismograph which measures ground movement caused by earthquakes

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1. A seismometer is a seismograph whose physical constants are so well known.

2. In seismic stations throughout the world, modern digital seismometers took their place.

3. During the impact of Hidalgo, the seismometers will reach saturation due to the high accelerations

4. Using 24-hour satellite Global Positioning Systems and seismometer networks, scientists can detect magmatic and underground movement.

5. Schofield marches down the hall, grabs a seismometer and an oscilloscope and hauls them into a van.

6. During the impact of Hidalgo, the seismometers will reach saturation due to the high accelerations.

7. Zumberge said a conventional seismometer records how its mass is displaced by these waves of seismic energy with electric circuit boards.

8. Accelerographs are useful for when the earthquake ground motion is so strong that it causes the more sensitive seismometers to go off-scale.

9. As a result, there is a P-wave "shadow zone" between 103° and 142° from the earthquake's focus, where the initial P-waves are not registered on seismometers.

10. The kinds of systems that will be down there, the kinds of instruments that will be on the sea floor, consist of -- if you can read them there -- there's cameras, there's pressure sensors, fluorometers, there's seismometers.

11. The ocean bottom seismometers also have been used for a detailed seismic refraction line just to the north of the Explorer spreading centre employing explosives and a large airgun as sources.

12. The reason is that no other region has been studied as thoroughly by scientists as southern California, where more than 700 seismometers document earthquakes with a magnitude as small as 1.5.