How to Use seismometer in a Sentence

seismometer

noun

• If that doesn’t move the needle for you, the off-the-chart seismometer readings might.
  — James Grebey, TIME, 19 July 2024
• Already work is afoot on the next seismometer that will be sent to space.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
• The lander will use its robotic arm to place a seismometer on the smooth surface.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• The moon still holds seismometers left behind by the 12 moonmen.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2018
• The first is a seismometer wrapped in a dome that insulates and protects from the planet's dust storms.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2018
• The Schrödinger mission will carry a lunar seismometer—the first to land on the moon since Apollo and the first on the far side—along with a drill, to study the inside of the moon.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
• As the earth moves, the weight remains in place, allowing the seismometer to measure the amount of movement relative to the weight.
  — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 21 May 2020
• But near any given quake there are rarely enough seismometers around.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• Then, by the end of the summer, the lander's seismometer will only be turned on at certain times, such as night when winds are not as high.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 18 May 2022
• On April 6, for example, the seismometer felt its first quake.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2019
• Now, though, the team has decided to sacrifice the last bit of its power to keep the seismometer up and running.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 June 2022
• These sounds can vary a great deal depending on how close the seismometer was to the earthquake source, as well as the magnitude of the earthquake.
  — National Geographic, 10 Apr. 2017
• These sounds can vary a great deal depending on how close the seismometer was to the earthquake source, as well as the magnitude of the earthquake.
  — National Geographic, 10 Apr. 2017
• InSight's robotic arm will then plant two instruments deep in the soil: a seismometer and a heat probe.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2017
• Lough and her colleagues left the seismometers in place until the following year.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 June 2018
• The seismometer revealed not just what was below but also the dynamics in the air above.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 17 May 2022
• The bright spot in between the solar panels is the protective dome that sits atop the lander's seismometer.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Oct. 2019
• The fore body would include a drill for sampling beneath Mars’s surface and a seismometer.
  — David S. F. Portree, WIRED, 30 July 2012
• The seismometer was the last instrument on the probe running as dust built up on the lander’s solar panels.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 21 Dec. 2022
• InSight has had its seismometer deployed for a few months now and the fourth planet is quiet.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2019
• The seismometer had been mounted on top of the lander rather than in direct contact with Mars's surface.
  — Alexandra Witze, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2018
• The rocky landscape was necessary, as the seismometers required a bedrock base.
  — Jack Flemming, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• In Seattle, two recent shows caused the ground to shake enough to register on a nearby seismometer.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• If this portion of the Indian Ocean were to warm 1° C, T-waves from those earthquakes would take 5.4 seconds longer to reach this seismometer.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2020
• The seismometer has been listening out for earthquakes on Mars.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
• Placing seismometers at the glacier's terminus to sense the spread of hidden fractures.
  — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• The system is still evolving and depends on the addition of seismometers.
  — Erick Mendoza, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2024
• There’s always going to be a region that is not warnable and that’s from right where the earthquake begins to the nearest seismometer.
  — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
• In the foreboding clip, a seismometer measures big disturbances in the ground.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
• To view these waves, geologists use a tool called a seismometer to record the shaking of the Earth’s surface that’s generated by an earthquake.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024