How Fiber Optic Cables Could Warn You of an Earthquake
And last month in the journal Scientific Reports, a separate team of researchers described how they used undersea cables off the coasts of Chile, Greece, and…
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Aftershocks May Rock Turkey and Syria for Months, Even Years
Early Monday morning, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake ripped through Turkey and Syria, followed nine hours later by a 7.5 aftershock. The death toll stands at…
With Dusty Solar Panels, InSight’s Days on Mars Are Numbered
While InSight’s pair of solar panels, each one shaped like a decagonal (10-sided) pie, efficiently provide solar power to the lander, dust has always been…
An Elusive Gravity Signal Could Mean Faster Earthquake Warnings
Seismic waves from a big quake are easy to see—think of the classic image of a seismograph, pencil scratching out telltale waves on a rotating paper as the…
How Wavelets Let Researchers Transform and Understand Data
In an increasingly data-driven world, mathematical tools known as wavelets have become an indispensable way to analyze and understand information. Many…
A Huge Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface
Combining the data from the giant array with additional seismic data sets proved instrumental, as it allowed the team to precisely resolve an entire swath of…
Scientists Could One Day Float an Aerial Robot Above Venus
Seismology is about waves. The epicenter of an earthquake is like a stone dropped into a pond. The disturbance ripples outward along Earth’s crust. That…
Scientists Just ‘Looked’ Inside Mars. Here’s What They Found
The researchers found the core density to be surprisingly low, at only about 6 grams per cubic centimeter, which is much lower than what they’d expected of…