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A seismograph is an instrument that records movements within the earth. A seismogram is the actual recording that scientists look at when studying earthquakes.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoSeismic waves and tsunamis are both the same.
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∙ 8y agoA seismograph is the device used to measure/detect seismic waves.
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∙ 12y agoThey are both graphs.
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∙ 11y agoYes But the frequencies are different
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What is the difference between a tsunami and seismic waves?
tsunami's happen underwater and seismic waves happen on land or underground.
What is the difference between seismic wave and tsunami?
A tsunami wave is a wave of energy that travels through water, while a seismic wave is a wave of energy that travels through earth.
What is the difference between seismograph and tsunami?
A seismograph is an instrument used to measure seismic waves in the earth's crust. In other words a seismograph detects earthquakes. A tsunami occurs when there is an earthquake at sea. The earthquake causes colossal tidal waves to form and the waves crash onto shore. This is a tsunami.
What is an ocean wave caused by an undersea earthquake?
That would be tsunamis. Tsunami is the japanese name for tidal wave, which is what we call a wave of significant size and height above sea level. Depending on the size and depth of the quake (below the Earth's crust), any number of types (sizes) of waves could result.
What is tsunami and how is one generated?
Large undersea earthquakes occasionally set in motion massive waves of water called seismic sea waves or (tsunami). They result from vertical displacement along a fault located on the ocean floor or from a landslide triggered by an earthquake.
What natural occurrence is most similar to a tsunami?
Tidal waves and seismic sea waves were used earlier for the same thing as a tsunami.
What is the difference between a tsunami and seismic waves?
tsunami's happen underwater and seismic waves happen on land or underground.
What are seismic waves called?
Seismic sea waves are also called a tsunami.
What are seismic waves also called?
Seismic sea waves are also called a tsunami.
What is the difference between seismic wave and tsunami?
A tsunami wave is a wave of energy that travels through water, while a seismic wave is a wave of energy that travels through earth.
What are seismic waves and what information information do they give about earthquakes?
Earthquakes are when the seismic plates on the earths crust move after pressure from on another is exceeded, seismic waves are produced after an earthquake, and can turn into a tsunami.
Seismic sea waves which approach the coasts at greater force are known as?
Tsunami
Is seismic waves and earthquake waves the same?
Seismic waves are any waves that travel through the Earth. As such all earthquake waves are seismic waves, however not all seismic waves are caused by earthquakes.
Why don't we call tsunamis ''seismic waves''?
Because a seismic wave is something else. Seismic waves are waves sent through the earth as part of the earthquake itself. A tsunami is an ocean wave generated by water being displaced.
What wave is a wave of energy produced at the focus of an earthquake?
A seismic wave. If the earthquake occurs under water, the seismic waves can produce waves in the water called tsunami.
Are shear waves and seismic waves the same?
A shear wave is a type of seismic wave.
What does seismic sea wave mean?
Its the same as a tsunami.
