Sentences with phrase «seismic signals generated»
Similarly, they use seismic signals generated by an earthquake to determine the earthquake's location and intensity.
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They looked specifically at seismic signals generated by ocean waves.
«A seismic signal generated by an explosion is like a fingerprint for that particular region,» he says.
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That's because at seismometers closer to a massive quake's epicenter, the slowly moving vibrations of typical seismic waves often arrive at instruments before Earth's tectonic slabs have stopped shifting, thus masking the signals generated by the temblor's final spasms.
The researchers utilized a novel approach of studying long - term variations in seismic signals, called microseisms, generated by ocean waves in the region.
«It's been known for a long time that landslides can generate a seismic signal,» says Randall Jibson, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado.