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UK
/saɪzmˈɒlədʒˌɪst/
]
[ US /ˌsaɪzˈmɑɫədʒəst/ ]
[ US /ˌsaɪzˈmɑɫədʒəst/ ]
NOUN
- a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth
How To Use seismologist In A Sentence
- The fears are all thanks to a purported prediction of a major Roman quake Wednesday attributed to self-taught seismologist Raffaele Bendandi, who died in 1979. Quakes hit Italy, but none in Rome despite myth
- And the funny thing, as admitted to myself, was that evolution teaches in no uncertain voice that man did run on all fours ere he came to walk upright, that astronomy states flatly that the speed of the revolution of the earth on its axis has diminished steadily, thus increasing the length of day, and that the seismologists accept that all the islands of Hawaii were elevated from the ocean floor by volcanic action. The Water Baby
- Seismologists can also provide statistical estimates of the long-term seismic hazard.
- Seismologists said the quake appeared to have been rooted about 30 miles underground, deep enough to prevent catastrophic destruction.
- I had now learned to gauge her emotional moods like a seismologist reads a Richter scale.
- Seismologists said aftershocks powerful enough to cause heavy damage in the northern region were now highly possible.
- With more earthquakes, more and better seismographs recording quakes, and more comprehensive compilations of seismic data, seismologists are sharpening their view of the African plume.
- Seismologists can also provide statistical estimates of the long-term seismic hazard.
- That system has not produced a quake of similar magnitude since 1751, says Richard Luckett, a seismologist at the British Geological Survey, which is headquartered near Nottingham, UK.
- Seismologists and volcanologists use both seismic and infrasonic signals to monitor volcanic activity.