How To Use Seism In A Sentence

However, the Seismosaurus fossil found with the most gastroliths held only 15 kg of stones, the largest no bigger than a grapefruit.
The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
It was more than a break from what came before; it was a seismic rupture.
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
The measure of core column is adopted to superhigh column, in order to making up the ductility of aseismic performance.

France and the U.S. have cooperated in space programs that have resulted in significant advancements in the understanding of such phenomena as El Niño, climate change, and seismology.
In the method, the mean velocity of certain exploration depth can be calculated making use of the difference of phase from consecutive seismic channels.
To achieve this goal we map the spatial distribution of volcanic seismic facies units.
At present, the vertical incidence of seismic wave is considered in the seismic response analysis of arch dam.
No coseismic offset in the position of the glacier surface is observed; instead, modest tsunamis associated with the glacial earthquakes implicate glacier calving in the seismogenic process. RealClimate
Mostly they analyze data from seismometers deployed around the globe, as well as data from the two dozen satellites that make up the Global Positioning System.
For three years, the seismometers recorded how seismic waves from hundreds of earthquakes worldwide bounced through the mantle.
That is where, I believe, the seismology people were working. MINUTES TO BURN
In seismology, stochastic models can be used to describe velocity heterogeneities that are too small or too numerous to be described deterministically.
A comparison of estimates of dip separation based on onshore geology and seismic data is presented later in the paper.
The region experiences a high rate of seismic activity, making it susceptible to earthquake damage.
There is thus an apparent increase in the velocity with the distance, but the accuracy of the coseismal lines is unequal to establishing this as a fact. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
But it would be naive to pretend that seismic political change can be avoided. Times, Sunday Times
But economics is even harder than meteorology or seismology.
The team includes experts in pattern recognition, geodynamics, seismology, chaos theory, statistical physics and public safety.
Light seismic frames brace the existing concrete structure with minimal disruption of the original space or the soil below.
All data are rapidly made available, and seismograms from large earthquakes are posted within minutes of occurrence.
The areal outline and estimated mass of the sylvinite beds were based on examination of drill hole data and review of interpreted vintage seismic maps.
Halfway across the Pacific, computer alarms also sounded and staff pagers beeped at a seismic centre in Honolulu.
According to the result, it is possible to make a mid or short term prediction of big earthquakes in the adjacent region of seismic source after huge earthquake occurs.
In marine seismic acquisition, the gas bubble produced by an air gun oscillates and generates subsequent pulses that cause source-generated noise.
The Seismological Society of America wrote to Italy's president expressing concern about what it called an unprecedented legal attack on science. Manslaughter trial opens against experts for Italy quake
New analyses of old seismic data have unveiled a previously unrecognized type of earthquake - quakes created by brief surges of massive glaciers.
ANOTHER day, another seismic shock in the worldwide economic earthquake. The Sun
It had already been instrumented, and Rex toed the weatherproof case of the old seismograph with disdain. MINUTES TO BURN
In all, more than two dozen tilt stations, GPS stations and seismometers will cover the Three Sisters area if the mission goes as planned.
Plans for the three-year exploration phase include drilling three wells and seismic studies at a cost of $ 13 million.
Around Britain a series of deep seismic traverses has revealed many of the structures produced during the Caledonian orogeny and other earth movements that are continued out over the continental shelf.
But over the course of years everyone living in a seismic zone realises that the flexible building that shakes and shimmies through a tremor suffers less damage than the rigid one, howsoever strong it may be.
Continued advances in supercomputing are also vital for a host of scientific advancements in biology, climate, economics, energy, material science, medicine, physics, and seismology.
An inventive use of seismic isolators sliced another $2.5 million off the budget.
The seismogram from the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory is also nifty, when their webserver isn’t swamped! Earthquake at cvillenews.com
The news that the chairman would resign set off seismic waves in the business community.
After two days of hearing many excellent pitches from scores of visionary entrepreneurs in the financial tech fintech industry, five things became clear: 1. A seismic shift is underway in the way financial products services will be offered to people and the way in which people will use them. Ben Mangan: Fintech Leaves Fake-o-nomics Behind
At the local warning center a seismometer (an instrument which measures the direction and force of eruptions) will provide accurate recordings of volcanic activity.
Pipe and dyke structures are not obvious in all the mapped calderas, suggesting either that the feeder pipes are below seismic resolution at this structural level, or that they are concentrated on caldera margins.
Government scientists later used the mine for experiments on seismic detection of underground explosions.
Seismic reflection data from NW James Ross Island show maximum dips of 15 to the SE in the subsurface, indicating that the steep dips are confined to a zone close to the basin margin.
They also left behind scientific apparatus, including a seismograph to measure Moon quakes, and a laser reflectometer which allowed incredibly accurate measurements of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Special lasers identify seismic faults in forbidding mountain ranges. Times, Sunday Times
Along with managerial skills, his geoscience specialties include well survey ( "logs") analysis and interpretation, evaluation of depositional and diagenetic systems, seismic - stratigraphic application to the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbon reservoirs, and definitive risk/reward economic evaluation of oil and gas projects. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
It would be foolish to read too much into one result, but it was still a seismic shock. Times, Sunday Times
To do that, however, they must run a gantlet of seismic and magnetic sensors buried along the border.
The resistance offered by the Sierra Nevada to the propagation of the earth-waves is shown in the former map by the approximation of the first and second isoseismals at the east end, and in the latter by the great bay in the third isoseismal line. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
According to the Beijing Municipal Bureau repair earthquake relief program briefing, Beijing and adjacent areas is one of China's seismically active regions.
This is a seismic change because it means the age of liberal internationalist capitalism is coming to an end. Times, Sunday Times
We want to understand the connections between aseismic deformation and earthquake occurrence.
Result indicates: Structural displacement response is largest as inputting Tianjin seismic waves, for its characteristic period is closed to the natural period of vibration of the model.
A spokesman for the provincial seismological bureau told Xinhua more people were feared injured or dead.
Evaluation of the new seismic data from Bulgaria had yielded very interesting results, he said.
What comes out of the laboratory and what is measured in the real world by surface seismographs leaves a gap.
Using the gas zone seismic reflection character incorporated with drilled wells to predict its lateral distribution, we have obtained better predicting effects.
Fine-grained mylonite developed in the fault corridor may have favoured aseismic deformation in the Shin volcano area.
If, however, the number of observations is large for the size of the disturbed area, the construction of coseismal lines may define approximately the position of the epicentre. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
There is no seismic movement; the fabric of reality doesn't suddenly come apart at the seams.
Along with the urban rapid development, the engineering seismic survey's importance also can unceasingly promote.
The system relies on seismographic sensors, which detect the seabed tremors and tiny changes in water pressure that warn of a tsunami, installed in a network of buoys across the Indian Ocean.
Such abrupt changes of sedimentary environment were caused by coseismic crustal movements," Kim and his team wrote in their study. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Mallet himself recognised that these facts required explanation, and he suggested that the situation and character of the towns were in part responsible for their ruin, and the physical structure of the country for the course of the isoseismal lines. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
The group specialises in marine seismic equipment used by exploration and production companies to monitor oil reservoirs. Times, Sunday Times
The third houses a seismometer - a boon for the state's earthquake researchers, as it is the first to be positioned west of the San Andreas Fault.
Conversely, when specific seismogenic fault zones have been considered, statistical links between seismicity and eruptive processes are found.
The July-August 2001 eruption at Etna was heralded by a seismic swarm initiated during the night of 12-13 July.
He is an internationally renowned authority in rock mechanics, seismology and volcanology.
A ray path is the trajectory that a small packet of seismic energy follows as it travels through the Earth.
Before the wells were dug, surveys and seismic testing had to be undertaken using sonar equipment, to find the best site for digging.
But a seismic shift took place in men's tennis when Rafael Nadal capped a stirring fortnight by holding off Roger Federer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-2 to win the Australian Open — the Spaniard's first Grand Slam on a hardcourt. Once in running for best ever, now Federer can't beat Nadal
_ -- Within the third isoseismal line Mallet made altogether 177 measurements of the direction of the wave-path at 78 places. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
Some nights the theatregoer knows something genuinely important has happened: a seismic shift in the possible. Times, Sunday Times
The world's largest oilfield services company said that it would reduce the size of its marine seismic fleet and write down the value of six ships. Times, Sunday Times
Since there were no seismographs operating in Alaska at that time and no reports of surface faulting in the remote Alaska Range, the location of the 1912 shock is poorly known.
Because the bridge is not situated in an area of high seismicity, the earthquake load was not significant and was not a controlling load in the design.
The preseismic linear polarization feature of geoelectric field is typically imminent, which is of some significance in location and time prediction of future earthquakes.
To this end we used an integrated modelling technique that combines several regional geophysical observables (elevation, gravity, geoid and heat flow) with available seismic data.
Nevertheless, two events occurred recently which, had they happened in isolation, would probably not have resulted in such a seismic shift in my world view as they did in combination.
SAC is tool software widely used in seismology research. SAC format also becomes general format of seismic waveform.
This eruption began in July 1995 with phreatic explosions following 3 years of precursory seismic activity.
The Zagros is an example of a young and active orogenic belt where geomorphology and seismicity provide invaluable constraints on the style of deformation, in ways not possible with ancient, inactive orogens.
Aside from the primitive roads and the occasional seismometer or tiltmeter, there is no sign of human habitation. Archive 2006-10-01
Traditional seismographs record straight-line movements, for example shaking, whereas ring lasers measure rotational movements like rolling or twisting.
The latter was calculated from the seismograms of the same observatory, as well as from the barograms of Siberian and European meteorological stations, see Ref. 10.
The interiors of the plates themselves are largely free of large earthquakes, that is, they are aseismic. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
Four seismic forces will soon collide to test the president's true political acumen.
Additional control on the subsurface continuity of the strata is provided by seismic data.
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
But one thesis about why poverty is so often paired with low intellectual attainment could prove seismic. Times, Sunday Times
The fishermen said the company's seismic survey was frightening away fish.
Two hours later in another level of the shaft, four others were injured when another seism erupted. IOL: News
Random noises have uniform rules and they comprise of circumstance noise, measurement error and ground microseism.
The advantage of this approach is that the entire wave field emanating from a seismic source can be considered.
This eruption began in July 1995 with phreatic explosions following 3 years of precursory seismic activity.
There are seismic changes happening across the global economy. Times, Sunday Times
Despite dramatic improvements in seismic and offshore drilling technologies that have opened up huge new areas for exploration, Australia's reserves have barely budged over the years.
It also became apparent that the ridges are prime sites of seismic activity and basaltic eruption.
Sensitive detectors called seismometers record waves emitted by the smallest earthquakes.
All told, 1,200 seismographs - including 800 borrowed from the United States - are being used in the $423,000 project.
The center said there were 43 mudslides, most of them located in Nantou County, where the seismic activity has made the county prone to mudflows.
According to Packard and Hoskinson, the purity of the tone may lead to the development of rotation sensors that are sufficiently sensitive to be used for Earth science, seismology and inertial navigation.
Each country affected by the disaster is to set up a tsunami warning centre to receive information from the pressure gauges, seismographs and wave sensors that will survey the ocean basin.
Following a seismic retrofit, windows were carved into the concrete street facade to reveal the activities within and shed a welcoming glow onto the pavement at night.
That is where, I believe, the seismology people were working. MINUTES TO BURN
The direction of movement across the faults gives some indication of whether plates are moving toward one another, which gives rise to one kind of faulting and seismic hazard, or slightly away from each other, which gives rise to another kind of faulting and a different type of seismic hazard. Newswise: Latest News
In other words, it was a typical seismologic day -- in terms of sheer numbers of tremors -- in the United States; what was slightly out of the ordinary was the magnitude and location of the earthquakes, said Rafael Abreu, a News - latimes.com
Several of Bull's research sites are within Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks since they are close enough to the San Andreas Fault for coseismal rock falls.
The blast caused a seismic rupture that split off a sizable part of Canada and created what we now know as Vancouver Island.
Conversely, when specific seismogenic fault zones have been considered, statistical links between seismicity and eruptive processes are found.
That move, and the Giants from New York to San Francisco, would usher in seismic changes for the game of baseball -- and not a few for America. George Mitrovich: When Brooklyn Was No More
Through compilations of time-integrated geological and seismological information, areas of high earthquake risk can be identified.
D prestack depth migration is an ideal seismic data imaging technique for the area where there occur very complicated geologic structure and severe lateral velocity variation.
September's earthquake in Christchurch was nearly 10 times stronger than Tuesday's tremor, but made less of an impact because it struck further from the city, says Adam Pascale , head of seismology at Environmental Systems and Services, a private seismic observatory based in the Australian city of Melbourne. Latest Quake Tests Geological Views
Eleven years before the epochal events in Germany, a seismic change was taking place in China
In traversing this range, the shock lost a great part of its strength, while it continued to be felt severely along its eastern foot, thus giving rise to the south-westerly extension of the third isoseismal in Fig. 20, and, though to a less extent, that of the second in Fig. 19. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
A seismic event measuring 2,1 on the Richter scale affected an area served by the Number 1 subvertical shaft at a depth of about ANC Daily News Briefing
Aftershocks continued for several years, and small earthquakes still waggle seismographs in the region.
A series of digital seismographs installed around the volcano provide a continuous stream of data to the observatory.
The isoseismal 7, which includes places where the shock was strong enough to overthrow ornaments, vases, etc., is also very nearly an ellipse, whose axes are 80 and 56 miles in length, and whose area is A Study of Recent Earthquakes
We considered as positively correlated only those values clearly showing a marked deviation from the average seismic activity.
Recently he has focused on numerical modeling of seismic wave propagation.
Losing that badge of fiscal rectitude really would be seismic. Times, Sunday Times
Seismo-oriented hydrographic and geochemical observation projects and testing instruments, etc.
The tower comprises of a complex steel diagrid, which sits above an extensive distribution of 490 piles that have been drilled 30m underground to accommodate gravitational, wind and seismic pressures. Undefined
It will be seen that they differ considerably in form, but at the same time they present certain points of agreement, such as the east and west elongation of the meizoseismal area, and the great extension of the two outer isoseismals towards the west and south-west The greatest difference is to be found in the eastern portion of the third isoseismal, which, according to the A Study of Recent Earthquakes
Part of this complexity can be related to the presence of irregularities on the subducting plates, such as aseismic ridges and arc terranes.
In the premise of ensuring the accuracy of seismic wavelet, reduced the model order as much as possible so as to obtain high-efficiency and high-precision seismic wavelet model order determination.
As I speak, geologists are in the field and continuing to install what will be a total of 50 seismometers.
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Cramer believes that US broadcasting underwent a seismic shift on September 11 last year.
In the last few years, the council has carried out collaborative projects with India in diverse fields, including seismology, nanotechnology, information education and social science.
The former requires a multidisciplinary approach, utilizing not only seismology but also other fields of geophysics and, most importantly, geology and geomorphology.
Work ranges from surveying and engineering in tidal and coastal areas to geomagnetic and hydrospace seismological observations. Discover What You’re Best At
Others say that the squid deaths have been caused by underwater seismic surveys using air guns.
The phase velocities of microseisms recorded with an array of eight instruments are measured in four different locations.
He is an internationally renowned authority in rock mechanics, seismology and volcanology.
These seismic waves in the crust are what people feel when they experience an earthquake.
For those who can sense the movement of ideological tectonic plates, this book represents the beginning of a seismic shift.
Geological sciences Professor Roger Bilham has studied tectonic activity in Italy and recently installed a seismic instrument known as a tiltmeter about 125 miles south of L'Aquila, which is located in the mountainous Abruzzo region east of Rome. Top Headlines at CU Boulder
The explosion registered on seismic stations across Eurasia, and produced fluctuations in atmospheric pressure strong enough to be detected by the recently invented barographs in Britain.
Actual confirmation of the reserves would require detailed seismic work and exploratory drilling.
Then the seismic fortification criteria for the Maglev Guideway Structures is proposed.
Line drawings are more suitable than variable-area-wiggle plots for displaying large seismic sections at a size appropriate for publication.
That is where, I believe, the seismology people were working. MINUTES TO BURN
This paper emphasize in study of mechanism of vibration frequency for free site in microseism testing.
The scientician sez the bountiful sightings of rippled water & hump-like humps & cetera are all due to seismic activity deep below the loch's surface.
It far exceeds masonry walls in seismic resistence. Cinder block vs brick
The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
If the meizoseismal area had been a thickly populated one, the evidence of ruined and damaged houses would have provided materials for the construction of isoseismal lines surrounding the two epicentres. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
The peaks and flatlines he has experienced during the club's European sorties have been akin to those that would register on a seismograph representing a 9.8 quake.
He later attributed his discovery of reflection seismology to surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as a child.
Eruptive phenomena are monitored 24/7 and in all weather conditions with continuously transmitting seismic and infrasonic instruments designed to distinguish explosive, ash-producing eruptions from volcanic earthquakes and tremor without ash production. Impact of Volcanic Activity on Airports
Moecher and Steltenpohl document an example of an exhumed deep crustal fault, provide evidence for precise determination of the depth for earthquake rupture, and explore potential mechanisms for how deep crustal coseismic rupture occurs. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
Seismologists can also provide statistical estimates of the long-term seismic hazard.
Seismic waves are detected by instruments known as geophones when used on land or hydrophones in water.
We didn't focus on worst-case scenarios, but rather what were believed to be the most likely outcomes," said Mr. Irikura, 71, who coedited a book on advanced seismic-hazard assessment published earlier this year. Big Japan Quakes Still a Risk
No one was prepared for what they saw, and the shock that ran through the small cluster of official greeters was almost palpable enough to set the seismographs located at the base of Mount Agung to stuttering. Dirge
This kind of implosive seismicity is rare anywhere on Earth," said study author Robert Sohn, Signs of the Times
These are linked to the worrying increase in seismic activity. Times, Sunday Times
Wavelet transform involves the two-variate function of frequency and time, which makes it convenient to simultaneously compensate for attenuation of seismic energy in frequency and time domains.
The paper by Martin et al. presents new structural, sedimentologic, and shallow seismic data that confirm that the mostly clastic King Lear Formation was deposited in a half-graben, not a thrust-bounded basin as previously interpreted. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
Richter, who worked in southern California, using data from seismographs - which measure earth movement - devised a method to calculate where an earthquake began, or its epicenter, and its magnitude.
Along with the urban rapid development, the engineering seismic survey's importance also can unceasingly promote.
It is valuable for anti - seism study based on the capability and safety evaluation.
The experts said that Kashmir being seismological zone requires greenery and plantation in abundance which proves balanced factor in seismologic zone and helpful in avoiding frequent earthquakes. Polythene cause for all human, environment ailments: SKUAST experts
Constructions in madrepore resist rather well the seisms, frequent but with low intensities in the region.
It not only can be used in seismic survey, but also can be used in communication between scatter oil well and host station, so its popularizing and utilizing value is very large.
The continental crust is not stratified like the oceanic crust and so does not have a characteristic seismic velocity structure.
This paper reviewed the results concerning the precise measurement of seismic velocity variation and application, discussed the principle and application of the correlated detection.
It was a time when seemingly small symbolic gestures wrought seismic change. Times, Sunday Times
Here, according to most of the authors, active extension is dominant over the whole chain, as shown by breakout data and seismicity, as well as by geological and geomorphological analyses.
The research on the joints of rabbet has great significance to the lateral stability of timber frame and Seismic Performance of Chinese history timber structure.
In the case of the Sumatra-Andaman event, they used the Japanese Hi-Net array, consisting of about 700 high-quality seismometers, as antennae to track the seismic sources.
Environmentcurrent issues: soil pollution from toxic chemicals such as DDT; the energy crisis of the 1990s led to deforestation when citizens scavenged for firewood; pollution of Hrazdan (Razdan) and Aras Rivers; the draining of Sevana Lich (Lake Sevan), a result of its use as a source for hydropower, threatens drinking water supplies; restart of Metsamor nuclear power plant in spite of its location in a seismically active zone Armenia
Acoustic and seismic listening device: extremely sensitive tool which can hear the slightest tap or scratch of a trapped person.
This paper illustrates good prospective to seek gas hydrate in the Continental Slope and Okinawa Trough in the East China Sea, according to the research of 2D seismic profiles surveyed by our bureau.
Since my first attachment to seismology, I have had a horror of predictions and of predictors.
The seismometer has one vertical component and two horizontal components.
In March last year, the region saw a so-called seismic swarm - a series of around 350 small earthquakes, centred on the bulge itself about three miles away from the South Sister.
Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the method has the effect as same as Hall sensor in the event that ensure the DC motor start-up quickly and microseism, and no locked rotor.
Seismologists said the quake appeared to have been rooted about 30 miles underground, deep enough to prevent catastrophic destruction.
Based on experimental data it is shown, that the hypothesis of resonant amplification of microseisms in the resonator between daylight surface and oil reservoir is more adequate.
Experts said that the region appeared to have entered a dangerous phase of heightened seismic activity. Times, Sunday Times
The development of wave-theory based seismic migration and imaging methods provides reliable ways for the construction of angle-domain CIGs of high quality.
But scientists say there is no new major seismologic activity. CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2004
Short, dispersive wave trains were also typical for barograms and seismograms from atmospheric nuclear explosions, well documented in the literature.
The news that the chairman would resign set off seismic waves in the business community.
The fear is that the seismic activity will loosen the cement that keeps the well pipe in place. Times, Sunday Times
The 1989 Loma Prieta quake filled a gap that had been aseismic since 1906 Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The scientists found that the seismograms were almost identical for waves that had travelled only in the mantle, or Earth's crust, and outer core.
The first felt seismicity occurred in November 1984, and increased fumarolic activity was noted in February 1985.
The vertical pendulum tiltmeter in Karamay seismic station was transformed digitally with EDAS-3 16 digit data acquisition unit and MDS-2710 data radio.
The seismic activity on the volcano is not changing at all while these emissions are taking place.
With evidence so abundant, a new method of drawing coseismal lines becomes possible. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
The seismic method of geophysical exploration is the most frequently used method in petroleum exploration.
Officials also knew that upgrading the building to meet seismic standards would cost a fortune.
The petroleum industry in particular invested heavily in these advances, being largely concerned with seismic surveying.
The overburden can be divided into three packages based on the geometry of the seismic reflections.

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