seismic (sismik)

[ forms of instruments contrived for the purpose of recording the phenomena of earthquakes are sometimes called seismographs, and sometimes scismometers. The name seismograph was first employed in reference to the elaborate seismometer contrived by Palmier i and used at his station on Mount Vesuvius. This was called by him a "sismografo," and this name has generally been Englished as seismograph, which is also the designation most generally applied by the members of the Seismological Society of Japan to the seismometers there contrived and used within the past few years. Same as