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isoseismal
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adjective
- of or relating to equal intensity of earthquake shock
noun
- a line on a map connecting points at which earthquake shocks are of equal intensity
Example Sentences
Isoseismal, Ä«-sÅ-sÄ«s′mal, n. a curve or line connecting points at which an earthquake shock is felt with equal intensity.—adjs.
These waves of translation can in some cases be laid down on a map, and are called "isoseismal curves," each curve representing approximately an equal degree of seismal intensity; as shown on the chart of a part of North America affected by the great Charleston earthquake.
Isoseismal Lines of the Neapolitan Earthquake 9 3.
Isoseismal Lines of Ischian Earthquake of 1881 51 16.
Mallet's Determination of the Epicentre.—Within the third isoseismal line Mallet made altogether 177 measurements of the direction of the wave-path at 78 places.
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