geophone
noun
geo·phone
ˈjē-ə-ˌfōn 
: an instrument for detecting vibrations passing through rocks, soil, or ice
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As such, the paper authors looked to the readings of 650 portable geophones scattered around Yellowstone’s roads, which revealed its seismic activity in sharper detail.
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Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
Unfortunately, the signals from distant quakes have relatively low vibrational frequencies, and the compact geophone sensor in a Raspberry Shake is meant for higher frequencies.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
The team is closely watching data recorded by eight geophones—acoustic detectors that pick up seismic waves—hanging in nearby boreholes.
—Gregory Barber, WIRED, 19 July 2023
The percussion section has some odd additions, including a whip, gongs, crotales (small cymbals struck with a mallet), a wind machine and one instrument invented specifically for this work: A geophone, or sand machine, a flat drum filled with beads to imitate the sound of shifting sand.
—Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Dec. 2021
Every Raspberry Shake, including the most popular Raspberry Shake 1D, comes equipped with a geophone that measures the vertical component of seismic waves.
—Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2020
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Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
Unfortunately, the signals from distant quakes have relatively low vibrational frequencies, and the compact geophone sensor in a Raspberry Shake is meant for higher frequencies.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
The team is closely watching data recorded by eight geophones—acoustic detectors that pick up seismic waves—hanging in nearby boreholes.
—Gregory Barber, WIRED, 19 July 2023
The percussion section has some odd additions, including a whip, gongs, crotales (small cymbals struck with a mallet), a wind machine and one instrument invented specifically for this work: A geophone, or sand machine, a flat drum filled with beads to imitate the sound of shifting sand.
—Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Dec. 2021
Every Raspberry Shake, including the most popular Raspberry Shake 1D, comes equipped with a geophone that measures the vertical component of seismic waves.
—Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2020
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“Geophone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/geophone. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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