Sentence examples similar to microseism from inspiring English sources
noun
A faint earth tremor caused by natural phenomena, such as wind.
The occurrence of some microseisms is related to storms at sea.
Seismographs sometimes detect small and long-continuing oscillations of the ground, called microseisms, that do not originate as earthquakes.
"There is no magnitude scale for the microseisms generated by Sandy, but Koper says they range from roughly 2 to 3 on a quake magnitude scale," ScienceDaily, a news Web site, reported.
And the seismic impact of Hurricane Sandy last October may have been the same or larger: Keith D. Koper, a geophysicist at the University of Utah, and a colleague reported that waves pounding the seafloor generated "microseisms" that were picked up around the country.
On the stretches of the San Andreas that generate regular earthquakes, this area is the source of continuous microseisms, tiny earthquakes smaller than magnitude 2.0 on the Richter scale.
The puzzle is that, on the non-creeping, non-slipping parts of the San Andreas Fault, even microseisms are absent.
