[
US
/ˈsaɪzmɪk/
]
[ UK /sˈaɪzmɪk/ ]
[ UK /sˈaɪzmɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
How To Use seismic In A Sentence
- 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 measure of core column is adopted to superhigh column, in order to making up the ductility of aseismic performance.
- 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
- For three years, the seismometers recorded how seismic waves from hundreds of earthquakes worldwide bounced through the mantle.
- 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.