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Seismology

Seis-mol′o-gy

,

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] an earthquake +

-logy

.]

The science of earthquakes.

Definition 2024

seismology

seismology

English

Three different types of seismic fault.

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Noun

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The study of the vibration of the Earth's interior caused by natural and unnatural sources, such as earthquakes.

Derived terms

Derived terms

Related terms

seismic

Translations

the study of the vibration of the Earth's interior

Arabic: عِلْم اَلزَّلَازِل m ‎(ʿilm az-zalāzil)
Catalan: sismologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 地震學 (zh), 地震学 (zh) ‎(dìzhènxué)
Czech: seismologie f, seizmologie f
Dutch: seismologie (nl) f
Finnish: seismologia (fi)
French: sismologie (fr) f, séismologie (fr) f
Galician: sismoloxía f
German: Seismologie (de) f
Greek: σεισμολογία (el) f ‎(seismología)
Hebrew: סייסמולוגיה (he)
Hungarian: szeizmológia (hu)
Icelandic: jarðskjálftafræði (is) f, skjálftafræði f
Indonesian: seismologi (id)

Italian: sismologia (it) f
Japanese: 地震学 (ja) ‎(じしんがく, jishingaku)
Khmer: រញ្ជួយដីវិទ្យា ‎(rʊəñcuəy dəy vityie)
Latin: seismologia f
Latvian: seismoloģija f
Lithuanian: seismologija f
Norwegian:

Bokmål: seismologi m

Nynorsk: seismologi m
Persian: زلزله‌شناسی ‎(zelzele-šenâsi)
Polish: sejsmologia (pl) f
Portuguese: seismologia f
Russian: сейсмоло́гия (ru) f ‎(sejsmológija)
Spanish: sismología (es) f
Turkish: sismoloji (tr)
Ukrainian: сейсмологія f ‎(sejsmolóhija)