Synonyms
Accelerograph; Early seismic recording; Old seismographs; Seismometer; Seismoscope
Introduction
A seismometer is an instrument that detects ground motion and a seismograph is a seismometer together with a recorder that records it (a seismogram). Historical seismometers or ancient seismographs are those instruments developed previous to the design and development of the World-Wide Standardized Seismographic Network (WWSSN, Oliver and Murphy 1971). Other previous studies on this topic used to define old seismographs as those designed up to the very early years of the twentieth century because around those years the main basic features of such instruments were already the same as what our present knowledge recognizes as seismographs with analog recording. But it should be realized that the younger graduates in seismology and related topics rarely have had contact with seismic analog recording. For this reason, some relevant instruments and topics on seismic recording developed...
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Batlló, J. (2015). Historical Seismometer. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_171
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