Friday, November 29, 2019

The Internet is the Next Earthquake Detector

...and no I'm not talking about people reporting tremors, although you should.

An experiment shows that it's possible to send a certain signal down a fiber-optic cable that turns the cable into a seismic detector. The next step is to see if doing it on cables that are actually in use (lit) will work without interfering with your streaming.

If this works, it will give us unprecedented knowledge of undersea seismic activity, which is very hard to measure.

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