Talk:Geophone

Geophone vs. seismometer

This article needs to distinguish between geophones and seismometers. I believe that a geophone is best described as a type of seismometer. Features that I believe separate them from other types of seismometers are:

• Size: geophones are small.
• Sensitivity: geophones are designed to record locally generated events, not teleseismic events.
• Bandwidth: geophones have a bandwidth (on the order of 5-200+ Hz) higher than earthquake seismometers.
• Portability: geophones are designed to be picked up and moved quickly and roughly.
• Separation of sensor from recorder: geophones are meant to be connected and disconnected at will from data recording systems via electrical or optical connectors.
• Application: geophones are designed to be laid out in patches for unaliased recording of wavefields. EQ seismometers are generally designed for point recording.

Please note any thoughts here. GeoGreg 21:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

• Hey maybe we ought to go back to the view of the geophone with the pencil for scale? This ain't an ebay auction, the part number is irrelevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.72.193.249 (talk) 03:17, 19 February 2010 (UTC)