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Most quakes are unnoticeable by people on the surfacein fact, thousands of quakes occur every day around the globe, most of them too weak to be felt. Every year, scientific instruments detect about 500,000 quakes worldwide. People feel only a small fraction of those. On average, a magnitude 8 quake happens every year somewhere on Earth. But severe earthquakes that cause widespread destruction happen on average once every five years. These great quakes can destroy cities, burst dams, trigger volcanic eruptions, and set off landslides and giant sea waves.
In contrast, modern seismometers detect and convert any small movement in the Earth into an electrical signal for use in computer systems, as shown in the digital seismogram image of five seismic sensors which detected the magnitude 5.4 earthquake near Moe in Victoria on 19 June 2012. Earthquakes are detected by scientific instruments called seismometers. The word seismo originates from the Greek word seismos which means to shake or move violently and was later applied to the science and equipment associated with earthquakes.