Standard seismic exploration typically involves setting off an explosion, then measuring the passage of its shock wave through the ground.

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Recently, we started applying our big data analytics technologies in other industries, such as seismic exploration of minerals and fundamental physics.

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Its seismic exploration ships off the coast of Angola have cut the time it takes to get approval and order replacement parts for things like air conditioners from ten days to as little as two minutes.

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Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport -- InSight, for short -- was just confirmed as a new NASA mission, with the space agency set to launch in March of 2016.

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Preliminary reports ruled out that seismic sound waves created by oil exploration in that stretch of sea could have killed the birds, the environment ministry said.

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One of them involved the Joint Maritime Seismic Undertaking (JMSU) in 2004 for oil exploration in the South China Sea, which has been shrouded in controversy, as it may have conceded territorial waters to China.

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Seismology for oil exploration differs from earthquake seismology, which measures naturally generated seismic waves.

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The WDCS says one problem is the expansion of oil and gas exploration into the deep seas and the resulting growth in seismic testing to find fossil fuel deposits.

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Seismic testing has already been done on the acreage, and Chevron says it plans to start drilling exploration wells by the end of the year.

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