seismology
(saɪzˈmɒlədʒɪ)
[f. seismo- + -logy. Cf. late Gr. σεισµολόγιον a treatise on earthquakes.]
The science and study of earthquakes, and their causes and effects and attendant phenomena.
| 1858 Mallet in Rep. Brit. Assoc. i. 1 The few physicists who are engaged in Seismology. 1879 Rutley Stud. Rocks iii. 9 The branches of physical geology known as Vulcanicity and Seismology. |