Sentence examples for seismic wave from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of several forms of vibrational waves that travel through the Earth as the result of an earthquake or underground explosion.
A variation in the stress field of the crust controls the distribution of micro-cracks in the crust, causing seismically observable phenomena, such as variations in seismic wave velocity, scattering of seismic wave and anisotropy of seismic wave velocity.
See also fault; plate tectonics; seismic wave.
The seismic wave continues to vibrate.
That was a seismic wave, I exuberantly told my son.
The seismic wave moves at about 7,000 miles per hour.
She did so by correlating the primary seismic wave forms collected.
Komatitsch, D. & Tromp, J. Introduction to the spectral elemental method for three-dimensional seismic wave propagation.
Calculated magmatic heat budgets correlate most strongly with seismic wave speeds at 32 60 s.
Other processes develop in the medium during seismic wave propagation.
A seismogram provides a record of the arrival of the various types of seismic wave at a particular location.
Recent developments in the theory of seismic wave propagation in cracked media1 demonstrate that shear-wave splitting will occur in seismic-wave propagation through cracked structures, when the cracks have any overall alignment.
