What's the difference between seismographic and seismology?

Seismographic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In spite of this, the scope of its uses continues to increase and it remains an indispensable instrument of neurophysiological diagnosis, especially in its capacity as a 'seismograph' of the brain.
  • (2) Looking at the bizarre, sinister world of North Korea’s leadership, it is almost anyone’s guess why the world’s most reclusive regime decided to mark the new year by exploding a device it claimed was a hydrogen bomb , sending seismographs quivering and unleashing new tensions in international relations.
  • (3) These quakes were substantial – measuring magnitude five – but had been invisible because they did not show up on seismographs.
  • (4) That morning the USGS servers received data from various seismographs, translated them into figures and sent them over the net to the journalist’s personal computer.
  • (5) The first explosion was registered on the seismograph at the University of Mexico at 05 h 44 min 52 s and was followed by a dozen explosions within the next hour, some of them of BLEVE type (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion) due to rupture of one or more storage tanks.
  • (6) Political volcanologists watching for eruptions should be turning their seismographs on the NHS.

Seismology


Definition:

  • (n.) The science of earthquakes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings were released at a Seismological Society of America meeting in Pasadena, California.
  • (2) Adaptive filtering is therefore apt for dealing with the "unknown" statistics situation and has been applied extensively in areas like communication, speech, radar, sonar, seismology, and biological signal processing and analysis for channel equalization, interference and echo canceling, line enhancement, signal detection, system identification, spectral analysis, beamforming, modeling, control, etc.
  • (3) "It seems quite likely that they are related," said Brian Baptie, the survey's head of seismology.
  • (4) "There are entire disciplines in which predictions have been failing, often at great cost to society," Silver argues, with fields at fault including biomedical research, national security, financial and economic modelling, political science and seismology.
  • (5) This was the sixth largest earthquake in the world since 1900, when seismological records began.

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