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n. (seismic wave English)
Usage examples of "seismic waves".
By measuring the seismic waves traveling through the ground, both in speed and in amplitude, I can build a three-dimensional picture of subsurface anomalies in ground density, including both the presence of massive support structures and of large excavated areas.
And if all that isn't scary enough, seismic waves don't travel alone.
It pierced all the shielding fields, burned through its steaming seas, exploded its crust and jarred its heart with seismic waves.
What Charlie wanted was to make the planet ring like a bell, so he could trace the patterns of seismic waves in the interior.
The ocean floor had slowed the base of the seismic waves and now, as the water shallowed before land, the waves crested.
They landed microprobes on the artifact, and tomographed it with faint seismic waves.