Skeleton discovery shows earthquake may have made Vesuvius eruption even more deadly
Researchers from Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia and Pompeii Archaeological Park revealed seismic activity played a significant role in Pompeii’s destruction during the 79CE Vesuvius eruption.
Estimating historic earthquake energy from rock signatures
Researchers from the Tohoku University in Japan have discovered that breccia rocks in the Ichinokawa Mine record valuable seismic activity evidence.
Highly sensitive fiber optic gyroscope senses rotational ground motion around active volcano
Researchers from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto Nazionale di Ottica in Italy have developed a fibre optic gyroscope to monitor seismic activity in Naples, potentially improving earthquake risk assessment.
Boom, crackle, pop: Sounds of Earth’s crust
From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 17/10/23 If you could sink through the Earth’s crust, you might hear, with a carefully tuned ear, a cacophany of booms and crackles along the way. The fissures, pores, and defects running through rocks are like strings that resonate when pressed and stressed. And as a team of MIT geologists […]
Internet fiber optic cables detect and characterize earthquakes in California
By CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 03/08/23 In California, thousands of miles of fiber optic cables crisscross the state, providing people with internet. But these underground cables can also have a surprising secondary function: they can sense and measure earthquakes. In a new study at Caltech, scientists report using a section of fiber optic cable to […]