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Is the seismograph a small needle moves across a graph paper by shaking when seismic waves hit The farther it moves the more powerful the seismic wave is this true or false?
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∙ 12y ago
False. The needle does not move. The paper moves. However, when you discount this error, it is true. The line drawn on the paper will be more erratic when the magnitude is greater.
The needle is attached to a huge weight. Compared to the paper, it does not move because of the inertia of the weight. That is why the statement is false.
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Is shaking a verb?
Shaking can be a verb as part of a continuous structure (They are shaking hands) or it can be a gerund which is rather a noun (Shaking hands is not customary in Japan.)
Is shaking either a verb adjective noun or adverb?
Shaking is a Verb. Example: I am shaking the salt out of the salt shaker.
What is the difference between shaking and clanking a chain?
what is the difference between shaking a chain and clanking it
What is the adverb of shake?
shaking
What is the past tense of to shake?
The past continuous is 'I was shaking'. The past perfect is 'I had shaken'. The past perfect continuous is 'I had been shaking'
What scale rates the size of seismic waves?
Most scientists use a machine called a seismograph which has a pen on the end and moves when there is shaking from the seismic waves. It records the shaking on a rotating paper called a seismogram. The up and down lines you see sometimes are drawn by the seismograph.
What is seismic shaking-?
"Seismic" refers to an earthquake, so seismic shaking is the shaking motion of the earth (and things on it) caused by an earthquake. There are different waves that emanate from the hypocenter, or point of origin.
This is used to record shaking?
seismograph scale
What is used to record the shaking of a earthquake?
Seismograph.
This is used to record the shaking?
seismograph scale
Seismic shaking is a msasure of?
Seismic waves are the vibrations from earthquakes that travel through the earths surface and is measured bye the shaking you feel.
Seismic wave influenced by source dimensions?
The seismic wave is influenced by the shaking source dimensions of all directions. This comes from the shaking of an earthquake.
What graph shows the shaking of a earthquake?
Seismograph. (Size-mo-graf).
What is used to record ground shaking and earthquake magnitude?
seismograph♥
How will two seismograms one close by the epicenter and one further away be different?
The seismograph taken at the epicenter will experience more rapid shaking because it is on the epicenter. The seismograph take further away from the epicenter will experience less violent shaking.
How are earthquakes detected and measured?
Earthquakes are detected by using a seismograph
Do 'autograph' and 'seismograph' have Greek or Latin roots?
The words 'autograph' and 'seismograph' have Greek roots. For example, the word 'autograph' comes from the Greek 'auto', as 'self'; and 'graphein', as 'to write'. The word 'seismograph' comes from the Greek 'seismo', as 'shaking' or 'shock'; and 'graphein', as 'to write'.
