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Seismology
The study of earthquake, seismic sources, and wave propagation through the Earth.
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Seismotectonics
Earth science; Seismology
The study of earthquakes and their relationships with faults.
Hypocentre
Earth science; Seismology
The subsurface location (focus) at which the energy of an earthquake is released. Earthquakes generally occur at depths less than about 30 km, but may occur to a depth of 600 km or more in some ...
Stress
Earth science; Seismology
The sudden reduction of stress across the fault plane during rupture.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
Earth science; Seismology
The time scale based on the atomic second but corrected every now and again to keep it in approximate sync with the earth's rotation. The corrections show up as the leap seconds put into UTC - ...
Travel time
Earth science; Seismology
The time required for a wave train to travel from its source to the point of observation.
Pleistocene
Earth science; Seismology
The time period between about 10,000 years before present and about 1,650,000 years before present. As a descriptive term applied to rocks or faults, it marks the period of rock formation or the ...
Period
Earth science; Seismology
The time interval between successive crests in a sinusoidal wave train; the period is the inverse of the frequency of a cyclic event.
