Earthquakes Definition, Prefix, Suffix, Ologies and Isms, Earthquakes Information and Meaning
See also GEOLOGY.
- bathyseism
- an earthquake occurring at very deep levels of the earth.
- bradyseism
- the slow upward and downward motion of the earth’s crust. —bradyseismic, adj.
- cataclysm
- any major disaster, as an earthquake, flood, etc. See also WATER. —cataclysmal, adj.
- coseism
- a line drawn about an epicenter through all points affected by the same seismic shock. —coseismic, adj.
- epicenter
- a point on the earth’s surface directly above the true center of the seismic disturbance from which the shock waves of an earthquake seem to radiate.
- macroseism
- a major earthquake. —macroseismic, adj.
- megaseism
- a violent earthquake. —megaseismic, adj.
- microseism
- an almost imperceptible earth tremor caused by a violent sea storm or an earthquake and detected only by a microseismometer. —microseismic, adj.
- seismicity
- the intensity, frequency, and distribution of earthquakes in a specific area.
- seismism, seism
- an earthquake. —seismic, adj.
- seismogram
- the record of an earthquake’s vibrations and intensity made by a seismograph.
- seismograph
- any of various devices for measuring and recording the vibrations and intensities of earthquakes. —seismographer, n. —seismographic, seismographical, adj.
- seismography
- 1. the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- 2. seismology.
- seismology
- the branch of geology that studies earthquakes and their effects. Also seismography. —seismologist, n. —seismologic, seismological, adj.
- seismometer
- a special seismograph equipped to measure the actual movement of the ground. —seismometry, n. —seismometric, adj.
- teleseism
- an earthquake that occurs in a part of the world far away from a recording station. —teleseismic, adj.
- tromometer
- an instrument for detecting or measuring very slight earth tremors.