"ground movements" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to changes in the surface of the earth or to a movement of people or things on the ground. Example sentence: We monitored the ground movements to see if anything strange was happening.
The Global Hawk's advanced radar and cameras can paint a high-resolution picture of enemy ground movements across a vast battlefield.
Japan, one of the more seismically active places on Earth, has an elaborate network of Global Positioning System devices to track even very slight ground movements.
In the July 11 test, the shake table faithfully reproduced 20 seconds of ground movements recorded during the Northridge earthquake 10 miles from the epicenter.
This weekend engineers began to drill wells around the outside of the bathtub wall to monitor water levels and ground movements in the coming months of excavation.
They deployed other sensors to pick up ground movements along with shifts in gases, electrical and magnetic fields that flow from subterranean movements of magma.
Government forces abruptly curtailed much of their ground movements, opting to concentrate forces in networks of large bases and midsize outposts and roll out their air force, both for logistics and air support.
Agents in sport utility vehicles with night vision goggles zoom across the grasslands, and there are plans in the works for unmanned drones to monitor ground movements from the air.
Permits earthquake scientists to detect even quite subtle ground movements.
The non-systematic errors may be due to ground movements caused by crustal deformations.
Simulation ground movements for each calculation number are possibly shown in this interface.
Large ground movements may impose significant longitudinal strains to the pipelines.
