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This paper presents a micro-fabricated electrochemical seismic sensor with a force-balanced negative feedback system, mainly composed of a sensing unit including porous sensing micro electrodes immersed in an electrolyte solution and a feedback unit including a feedback circuit and a feedback magnet. In this study, devices were designed, fabricated, and characterized, producing comparable performances among individual devices. In addition, bandwidths and total harmonic distortions of the proposed devices with and without a negative feedback system were quantified and compared as 0.005\u201320 (feedback) Hz vs. 0.3\u20137 Hz (without feedback), 4.34 \u00b1 0.38% (without feedback) vs. 1.81 \u00b1 0.31% (feedback)@1 Hz@1 mm\/s and 3.21 \u00b1 0.25% (without feedback) vs. 1.13 \u00b1 0.19% (feedback)@5 Hz@1 mm\/s (ndevice = 6, n represents the number of the tested devices), respectively. In addition, the performances of the proposed MEMS electrochemical seismometers with feedback were compared to a commercial electrochemical seismic sensor (CME 6011), producing higher bandwidth (0.005\u201320 Hz vs. 0.016\u201330 Hz) and lower self-noise levels (\u2212165.1 \u00b1 6.1 dB vs. \u2212137.7 dB at 0.1 Hz, \u2212151.9 \u00b1 7.5 dB vs. \u2212117.8 dB at 0.02 Hz (ndevice = 6)) in the low-frequency domain. 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