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Seismology

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Seismology is the study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through planets and other solid bodies. This field includes the study of other phenomena related to earthquakes like volcanic, tectonic, oceanic, atmospheric processes.

Thumbnail: San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, aerial view from 8500 feet altitude. (CC BY-SA 4.0 International; Ikluft via Wikipedia).


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