A seismometer is an instrument that responds to ground displacement and shaking such as caused by quakes, volcanic eruptions, and explosions. They are...
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The Wood–Anderson seismometer (also known as the Wood–Anderson seismograph) is a torsion seismometer developed in the United States by Harry O. Wood and...
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An ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) is a seismometer that is designed to record the earth's motion under oceans and lakes from man-made sources and natural...
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& 2 in 1976, with seismometers mounted on top of the lander. The seismometer on the Viking 1 lander failed. The Viking 2 seismometer collected data for...
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Lunar seismology (redirect from Lunar seismometer)
Package). The existence of moonquakes was an unexpected discovery from seismometers placed on the Moon by Apollo astronauts from 1969 through 1972. The Apollo...
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magnitude 3 quake factors 10³ while a magnitude 5 quake factors 105 and has seismometer readings 100 times larger). The Richter magnitude of an earthquake is...
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and uppermost mantle. They range from weak events detectable only by seismometers, to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused...
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earthquake or an underground explosion originates. The primary purpose of a seismometer is to locate the initiating points of earthquake epicenters. The secondary...
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Geophone (section Distinction from seismometers)
were clear differences between geophones and seismometers. Compared to conventional geophones, seismometers are more suitable for detecting extremely small...
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believed to have drilled deep into the lunar regolith. Apollo 11 had left a seismometer on the Moon, but the solar-powered unit did not survive its first two-week-long...
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