Many of the world’s largest and most devastating earthquakes strike beneath the ocean, where the lack of sensors makes quick warnings difficult. Most monitoring stations are on land. “If we have a big ...

Stanford researchers have shown it’s possible to repurpose optical fiber strands to detect seismic events. Thousands of miles of buried optical fibers crisscross California’s San Francisco Bay Area, ...

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 ...

“To my knowledge, this is the first example of this technique used under the sea,” says geoscientist Philippe Jousset of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, who has used fiber to sense ...

KARACHI, July 6: A fault was detected in the country’s only fibre-optic link when engineers pulled up the defective portion of the cable from under the seabed and carried out technical tests on ...

Seismic array: researchers used the first 20 km (pink) of an undersea cable that stretches from Moss Landing to the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS). Also shown is the earthquake epicentre ...

This project hopes to create a warning system to prevent the next bridge collapse or other major infrastructure disaster. A new European project is hoping to demonstrate that fibre-optic cables, the ...

The chief engineer is on vacation, but he asked me to see if I could pick something up to check the fiber lines we have run-some don't appear to be labeled correctly, or are possibly faulty. But ...