seismology

English

Three different types of seismic fault.

Etymology

seismo- +‎ -logy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪzˈmɑlədʒi/
• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

seismology (uncountable)

1. The study of the vibration of the Earth's interior caused by natural and unnatural sources, such as earthquakes.

Hyponyms

• astroseismology
• geoseismology
• helioseismology
• kronoseismology
• selenoseismology

 

Derived terms

• archaeoseismology
• asteroseismology
• asterseismology
• astroseismology
• helioseismology
• kronoseismology
• microseismology
• paleoseismology
• seismologic
• seismological
• seismologist
• teleseismology

 

Related terms

• seismic

Translations

the study of the vibration of the Earth's interior

• Arabic: عِلْم اَلزَّلَازِل m (ʕilm az-zalāzil)
• Catalan: sismologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地震學／地震学 (zh) (dìzhènxué), 地震学 (zh) (dìzhènxué)

• Czech: seismologie f, seizmologie (cs) f
• Dutch: seismologie (nl) f
• Finnish: seismologia (fi)
• French: sismologie (fr) f, séismologie (fr) f
• Galician: sismoloxía f
• German: Seismologie (de) f
• Greek: σεισμολογία (el) f (seismología)
• Hebrew: סייסמולוגיה (he)
• Hungarian: szeizmológia (hu)
• Icelandic: jarðskjálftafræði (is) f, skjálftafræði f
• Indonesian: seismologi (id)
• Irish: seismeolaíocht f
• Italian: sismologia (it) f
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• Japanese: 地震学 (ja) (じしんがく, jishingaku)
• Khmer: រញ្ជួយដីវិទ្យា (rʊəñcuəy dəy vityie)
• Korean: 지진학 (ko) (jijinhak) (地震學 (ko))
• Latin: seismologia f
• Latvian: seismoloģija f
• Lithuanian: seismologija f
• Maori: mātai rūwhenua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: seismologi m

  Nynorsk: seismologi m

• Persian: زلزله‌شناسی (zelzele-šenâsi)
• Polish: sejsmologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: seismologia f
• Russian: сейсмоло́гия (ru) f (sejsmológija)
• Spanish: sismología (es) f
• Turkish: sismoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: сейсмоло́гія f (sejsmolóhija)
• Vietnamese: địa chấn học (地震學)