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Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic ...
New research led by the University of Victoria (UVic) has illuminated a significant and previously unrecognized source of ...
Japan has developed an undersea warning system that can detect earthquakes 20 seconds before they reach land, significantly ...
Mathematical innovations from Tohoku University researchers are advancing detection of more types -- and fainter forms -- of seismic waves, paving the way for more effective earthquake monitoring ...
Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...
The “megathrust” earthquake’s undersea magnitude was 9.0, recorded as one of the worst in Japan’s history. It began on the Pacific seabed 45 miles away from the eastern coast of Japan, as reported by ...
Utah's risk of a major earthquake is still growing, but state geological officials say it's also possible to give many residents at least a short warning before ...
Google's earthquake detection is available worldwide but is more advanced in California, Oregon and Washington, where more seismometer systems can communicate with Google's servers.
UT researchers published a study in Science on June 26 that provided insight into the behavior of slow slip earthquakes, which release energy gradually and produce no detectable shaking.  Regular ...