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Google uses underwater fibre-optic cable to detect earthquakes

By Priti Parikh Underwater cables carry internet traffic around the world Christoph Burgstedt/Getty Images A 10,000-kilometre-long fibre-optic cable owned by Google that is at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean can be used to detect deep-sea seismic activity and ocean waves. Zhongwen Zhan at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues, including researchers at Google,… Source link

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