Seismologists study earthquakes by looking at the damage that was caused and by using seismometers. A seismometer is an instrument that records the shaking of the Earth's surface caused by seismic ...

When an earthquake occurs, the waves from them are able to be picked up on sophisticated earthquake monitoring devices known as seismographs. These seismographs can help detect how strong an ...

Scientists have gotten awfully good at the business of seismography. At any moment, the Global Seismograph Network (GSM), a web of 150 instruments arrayed around the world, is reliably taking the ...

A seismograph tucked away in a basement at Colby College has quite a distinction. It was the first one installed in Maine to detect earthquakes. And it got put to use over the weekend. Two small ...

A seismograph is a scientific instrument which records information about the duration, intensity, and direction of a seismic disturbance, classically an earthquake. In addition to registering ...

We use seismographs to record the time, location, and magnitude of earthquakes as they happen. But in the last three decades, a new field of study has emerged that is learning to track these details ...

SEATTLE -- The thunderous roars that came from CenturyLink Field celebrating the goals sealing the Seattle Sounders' 2nd MLS Cup didn't just carry across SoDo and Pioneer Square... They registered as ...

Earth's tectonic plates are in constant motion and, because the plates are not all moving in the same direction, the boundaries where they meet are often violent places. Boundaries where two plates ...

For decades, China’s middle school students were introduced to the world’s first seismograph through an image in their history textbooks: a large, bronze urn with eight dragons perched the same ...

On Thursday, NASA announced that the InSight lander was continually losing power after dust coated its solar panels. The agency expects that it will probably lose contact with the lander within the ...