How to Use seismometer in a Sentence

seismometer

noun
  • Already work is afoot on the next seismometer that will be sent to space.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
  • If that doesn’t move the needle for you, the off-the-chart seismometer readings might.
    — James Grebey, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • Has Boston checked their seismometer for that date?
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Lough and her colleagues left the seismometers in place until the following year.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 June 2018
  • On April 6, for example, the seismometer felt its first quake.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2019
  • 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 rocky landscape was necessary, as the seismometers required a bedrock base.
    — Jack Flemming, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • 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 has been listening out for earthquakes on Mars.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 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
  • 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
  • Once the seismic waves from an earthquake have reached enough seismometers, the distinction becomes clear.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The seismometer was the last instrument on the probe running as dust built up on the lander’s solar panels.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Before the seismic swarm, there were only two seismometers on São Jorge.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The system is still evolving and depends on the addition of seismometers.
    — Erick Mendoza, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Placing seismometers at the glacier's terminus to sense the spread of hidden fractures.
    — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • In the foreboding clip, a seismometer measures big disturbances in the ground.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
  • All of which might be enough to keep someone nervously watching the seismometers scattered throughout the area.
    — Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • In Seattle, two recent shows caused the ground to shake enough to register on a nearby seismometer.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • ExoMars, which was slated to take off later this year, is also equipped with a seismometer.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 24 May 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
  • The backbone of my seismometer is a 60-cm-long aluminum extrusion.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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