Seafloor cables that carry the world’s internet traffic can also detect earthquakes
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/seafloor-cables-carry-world-s-internet-traffic-can-also-detect-earthquakes
Seafloor cables, such as this link between the United States and Spain, can serve as seismic sensors.
Some 70% of Earth's surface is covered by water, and yet nearly all earthquake detectors are on land. Aside from some expensive battery-powered sensors dropped to the sea floor and later retrieved, and a few arrays of near-shore detectors connected to land, seismologists have no way of monitoring the quakes that ripple through the sea floor and sometimes create tsunamis.
Seafloor cables that carry the world’s internet traffic can also detect earthquakes
Jun 14, 2018, 7:15pm UTC
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/seafloor-cables-carry-world-s-internet-traffic-can-also-detect-earthquakes
> Seafloor cables, such as this link between the United States and Spain, can serve as seismic sensors.
> Some 70% of Earth's surface is covered by water, and yet nearly all earthquake detectors are on land. Aside from some expensive battery-powered sensors dropped to the sea floor and later retrieved, and a few arrays of near-shore detectors connected to land, seismologists have no way of monitoring the quakes that ripple through the sea floor and sometimes create tsunamis.