Seismology is the study of earthquakes. A seismology station, the seismology of the region, study seismology.
The waves that travel through the earth are the only direct evidence anybody has of what is inside it, so seismology mapped the core and the mantle. It is also how underground nuclear tests are detected worldwide.
1nounseismologyThe study of earthquakes.
“She studied seismology and now monitors the tremors under the volcano.”
seismology is a science.
Greek seismos, a shaking, from seiein, to shake, plus logos, an account.
From seismo + logy.
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