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Q: What does a seismometer measure?
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What is used to measure moonquakes?

A seismometer would measure earthquakes, but there is no such activity on the moon to measure.


What is the instrument that can measure the intensity of earthquakes?

A seismogragh and/or seismometer.


This instrument is used to measure the intensity of an earthquake.?

Seismometer


Can you put the word seismometer in a sentence?

A Geologist uses a seismometer to measure earth tremors and movements, and to help predict a possible earthquake.


What caused the seismometer's development?

A desire to record the occurrence and measure of earthquakes.


What caused the development of seismometer?

A desire to record the occurrence and measure of earthquakes.


Which instrument does not belong and why. Anemometer barometer thermometer seismometer?

The seismometer is the 'odd one out'. The other instruments measure factors to do with weather (wind speed, air pressure & temperature) - the seismometer measures movements in the Earth's crust.


What instrument record earthquakes?

A seismometer is used to measure the strength of earthquakes.


What name is given to the instrument used to measure earthquakes?

A seismometer.


How do you detect the magnitude of an earthquake?

You use a seismometer. Then, measure the magnitude according to the Richter scale.


What do you call an instrument used to detect and record earthquakes?

Seismometer (or seismograph) and it measure seismic waves


What seismometer measure?

A seismometre detects seismic impulses in other words it basically measures earthquakes