Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or connected with seismology, or the scientific investigation of the phenomena of earthquakes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to seismology.
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- adjective Relating to
seismology .
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- adjective of or concerned with seismology
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Examples
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Second, because of Iraq's isolation over the last decade-during which exploration technology has greatly improved-there has been almost no use of the most sophisticated exploration techniques such as seismological surveys, magnetometers, and sniffers in Iraq.
Peak Energy 2008
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Joe Litehiser, a Bechtel Corp. researcher, has studied the implications of earthquakes on licensing of proposed new nuclear plants in the central and eastern U.S. Litehiser said there is more seismological information available now than there was decades ago, when the existing plants were built.
Regulators Aware For Years Of Understated Seismic Risks To Nuclear Plants 2011
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The IAEA concluded that Japanese regulators underestimated the earthquake risk because they primarily relied on "recent historical seismological data."
Tokyo Faulted for Crisis Readiness David Crawford 2011
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Rather than calmly provide information, Myers filled the day with unhinged, even testy, seismological explanations and impossible-to-follow metaphors.
TV review: Shocking footage from Japan, amplified by cable news 2011
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The initial Metro Century City seismological studies were released in October.
John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011
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The conventional seismological community is unable to derive early warnings for even the large magnitude earthquakes, such as the recent quake that devastated parts of Japan or the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra that produced a killer tsunami.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Friedemann Freund - The Future of Forecasting Earthquakes SETI Institute 2011
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A Virginia Tech seismological site indicates that Hanover is in one of two sections of Virginia where small quakes occur occasionally.
Earthquake rattles east central Virginia Martin Weil 2010
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Globovision then tried the next logical step, to ask the Venezuelan seismological thing, FUNVISIS.
Global Voices in English » Venezuela: Conflict Between the Media During Earthquake 2009
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The conventional seismological community is unable to derive early warnings for even the large magnitude earthquakes, such as the recent quake that devastated parts of Japan or the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra that produced a killer tsunami.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Friedemann Freund - The Future of Forecasting Earthquakes SETI Institute 2011
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The initial Metro Century City seismological studies were released in October.
John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011
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