Word: seismologist
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...machine, devised by Roland K. Blumberg 4G, may well be the "seismograph of tomorrow," predicts L. Don Lect, professor of Geology and director of the Station. It records earth tremors on special tape in the seismologist's own office, eliminating the need for trips to underground stations to determine which quake messages are being recorded...
Three ink lines on a ticker tape-like roll in the seismologist's office record the motion. The original signals come from a "seismometer" unit in a vault...
...main home island of Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...
...gadget, called an electro-cello, was the latest of scientists' attempts to improve on the aged wood and fine Italian hand of the old violin makers. It was fashioned by Caltech's seismologist Dr. Hugo Benioff, who gave up violin playing as a boy because he couldn't stand the noise he made. Eighteen years ago, when he was designing seismographs to measure earthquakes, he decided that there wasn't much difference between a seismograph and a fiddle "except one deals with slow movements and the other with rapid movements." For his scientific cello he mounted...
...According to the law of averages Japan should not be far from another serious earthquake." So last month spoke Father Joseph Lynch, S.J., famed Fordham University seismologist. He pointed out that a major Japanese earthquake occurred in 1933 and another in 1923. Will there...