Word: seismologist
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...Project Vela's conclusions, which confirm the Defense Department's 1959 and, exaggerate the problems involved," the seismologist argued...
...atomic explosions go, the recent Gnome test in New Mexico (TIME, Dec. 22) was relatively feeble. It generated only five kilotons of energy. But last week Chief Seismologist Leonard M. Murphy of the Coast and Geodetic Survey announced that Gnome's earth waves were recorded by seismographs near Tokyo, 6,000 miles away. Uppsala, Sweden (5,200 miles), Sodankyla, Finland (5,000 miles), and Fairbanks, Alaska (3,000 miles) also detected the explosion, and all the stations recorded the "first motion," the outward push that is characteristic of bomb waves and can distinguish them from natural earthquake waves...
...approached England from the southwest. At ten minutes past midnight on Nov. 1, the first wave swept over England again, making almost as strong a record as on its first trip. At 12:40 p.m. on Nov. 2, it made its third appearance, three days after the explosion. Seismologist Carpenter is sure that special microbarographs, tuned up for the purpose, would have detected the persistent waves for several more days...
...made studies of surface and ground water. He has also made geological studies for the oil industry, and is a consultant on building foundations. A native of Sydney, Australia, he taught geology for four years at New South Wales University of Technology (Australia) and for a year was seismologist with the Frontier Geophysical Co. of Alberta, Canada...
...Mohorovicic discontinuity, discovered in 1909 by Yugoslav Seismologist A. Mohorovicic...