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    After World War II, the seismometers developed by Milne, Ewing and Gray were adapted into the widely used Press-Ewing seismometer. Modern instruments use...
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    activity, physical nature, and composition of the Moon. PSEP was the first seismometer to be deployed on a planetary body other than Earth. The California Institute...
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  • Thumbnail for Lunar seismology
    Package). The existence of moonquakes was an unexpected discovery from seismometers placed on the Moon by Apollo astronauts from 1969 through 1972. The Apollo...
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  • Thumbnail for Seismology
    of the first modern seismometers by James David Forbes, first presented in a report by David Milne-Home in 1842. This seismometer was an inverted pendulum...
    35 KB (3,997 words) - 17:32, 12 July 2024
  • to damp seismic vibrations. Information about moonquakes comes from seismometers placed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972. The instruments placed by...
    11 KB (1,397 words) - 02:39, 29 May 2024
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    Bowie Medal (the top award of the American Geophysical Union); the Maurice Ewing Medal (the top award of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists); and the...
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    crust. The existence of moonquakes was an unexpected discovery from seismometers placed on the Moon by Apollo astronauts from 1969 through 1972. The most...
    267 KB (25,936 words) - 05:49, 21 August 2024
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    characteristics. The cores of other planets cannot be measured using seismometers on their surface, so instead they have to be inferred based on calculations...
    36 KB (4,405 words) - 16:18, 18 July 2024
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    (September 6, 2017). "Hurricane Irma has become so strong it's showing up on seismometers used to measure earthquakes". Independent. Archived from the original...
    217 KB (19,490 words) - 07:57, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seismic velocity structure
    Among these, the Seismometer for a Lunar Network (SLN) project stands out. The SLN aims to facilitate the creation of a lunar seismometer network by integrating...
    82 KB (7,562 words) - 07:09, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Okmok
    "high-threat volcano" by the United States Geological Service. The AVO operates seismometers and equipment measuring deformation of the edifice, which relay their...
    81 KB (9,549 words) - 19:45, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zhang Heng
    A seismoscope records the motions of Earth's shaking, but unlike a seismometer, it does not retain a time record of those motions. It was named "earthquake...
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  • Engineering in Tokyo, he helped John Milne and James Alfred Ewing develop the first modern seismometers from 1880 to 1895. Although all three men worked as a...
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  • Electromagnetic and Tomography) experiment, which deployed a network of seismometers on the seabed. The MELT experiment was a pioneering effort in marine...
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  • Thumbnail for Cargill Gilston Knott
    seismologist Fusakichi Omori in establishing a network of recording seismometers across the Japanese Empire. Knott also taught courses in mathematics...
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  • Sir John William Dawson, geologist James David Forbes, inventor of the Seismometer Hugh Falconer, geologist and paleontologist, Wollaston Medalist John...
    132 KB (12,485 words) - 00:59, 27 August 2024
  • (KCL) John Anthony Allan (SOAS and KCL) John Milne – inventor of the seismometer (KCL) James Haward Taylor (KCL) Errol White (KCL) Anne O'Garra (UCL)...
    63 KB (6,648 words) - 07:14, 19 August 2024