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What is seismology?

What is seismology? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The study of the vibration of the Earth's interior caused by natural and unnatural sources, such as earthquakes.
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As a public spokesman for seismology and earthquake hazard mitigation, Richter often showed an irascible personality.
Colombia also has been at the forefront of studies of volcanology and seismology.
It wasn't until after she completed her formal education that Hutton chose earthquake science, or seismology, as a profession.
In the journey of life, those hours spent scrambling your memory for all you can remember about Shakespeare, sonnets and seismology marks an important milestone.
If so, then seismology has found a fertile habitat in earthquake-prone California.
These are commonly considered to include plutology, with geodesy, geothermometry, seismology, and tectonophysics as subdivisions.

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