Undersea Cables Are the Latest Tools for Earthquake Detection - WIRED

Rumbles and tides create tiny, detectable disturbances in fiber optics. The world’s cables could form a vast network for detecting earthquakes and tsunamis.

These very words may have flown through an undersea cable before reaching your eyeballs. Hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optics crisscross the worlds oceans, shuttling emails, Netflix shows, … [+2433 chars]

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