How to Use seismograph in a Sentence

seismograph

noun
  • Imagine a seismograph, but one that records the movement of water rather than of earth.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • It is not usually felt by people but is still recorded on a seismograph.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2024
  • The data come from a seismograph located near the middle of the park.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • Yell said the city of Huntsville put a seismograph in his yard to monitor the explosions.
    — Scott Turner | , al, 25 July 2023
  • At each network node, any tremor, or even a rock slipping, could trigger a measurement from the seismograph.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The seismographs and satellites of the AI age, in other words, don’t yet exist.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 23 June 2026
  • This was dangerous business; to this day, any sneeze my dad unleashes will show up on faraway seismographs.
    — Drew Magary, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
  • On Mars, there's only a single seismograph for the entire planet.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The seismograph is about the size of shoe box and requires minimal electricity.
    — Lisa P. White, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2017
  • So many fans were jumping up and down and yelling so loudly the activity registered on a nearby seismograph.
    — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Twenty years ago, researchers used seismograph data and proposed the existence of a fifth layer.
    — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The trailer opens with ominous signs of seismograph activity picking up as desert sands start to shift and a giant ape hand bursts out from below.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Just in 2017, Texas rolled out seismograph stations across North Texas.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2024
  • Researchers around the world spotted an unusual oscillating sine wave sketched across seismographs.
    — Darren Orf, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The Viking seismographs were mounted on top of the spacecraft, which made their readings less-than-entirely reliable.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 May 2018
  • To gauge how well the Nectar isolates motion, our testers dropped a kettlebell on it and then used a seismograph machine to measure the impact.
    — Kells McPhillips, SELF, 26 July 2024
  • Designed to detect earthquakes, the seismographs were sensitive enough to pick up on pressure fluctuations caused by waves pounding shores miles away.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • In 150 years, the soundings of Britons' feelings for the monarchy have fluctuated like a seismograph chart.
    — Patt Morrison, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • The principal instruments on board the spacecraft include the first ever seismographs placed directly on the surface of Mars.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 May 2018
  • Stock image of a seismograph machine needle drawing a red line on graph paper depicting seismic and earthquake activity.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • How to Measure an Earthquake Current detection methods leverage a network of seismographs around the globe.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The decibel level at Carver-Hawkeye Arena had to have registered on a seismograph machine.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • On Polymarket’s tab for Bitcoin, a line graph crawls along like a seismograph, showing the price to beat as the total cost fluctuates by hundreds of dollars a second.
    — Joe Wilkins Published Mar 18, Futurism, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The Raspberry Shake, a simple seismograph based on Raspberry Pi hardware.
    — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Although the earthquake had a significant magnitude, the readings, which measures the amplitude of the wave forms, or how much fault is moving, on the seismograph don't tell the full story of the strength of the earthquake.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Since the Great Kantō quake a century ago, Japan has collected vast sums of data and maintains a dense seismograph network with early warning systems.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Not so in soloist Paul Jacobs’ magisterial playing of the organ part, which built to a thrilling roar of low pedal sonority in the final pages that must have set off every seismograph in the state.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2018
  • During the Apollo 11 moon landing, coated cable manufactured by the company was used to attach a seismograph to the lunar lander.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2020
  • In a sense, Curiosity is the older sibling to InSight, the new rover that recently deployed a seismograph into the planet's surface.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2018
  • The Point Loma seismograph station reported that the quake was between the fifth and sixth intensity here in a scale in which the 10th intensity is the maximum.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Mar. 2018

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