If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables ...

Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic ...

Japan has developed an undersea warning system that can detect earthquakes 20 seconds before they reach land, significantly ...

The “megathrust” earthquake’s undersea magnitude was 9.0, recorded as one of the worst in Japan’s history. It began on the Pacific seabed 45 miles away from the eastern coast of Japan, as reported by ...

Japan launches worlds first underwater earthquake early warning system with 6,000 km of fiber optics Japan unveils pioneering fiber optic network for seismic safety and disaster preparedness ...

A 4.4 magnitude earthquake near Jhajjar was felt across Delhi-NCR on Thursday highlighting the region's seismic risk and lack ...

After Japan Earthquake, U.S. Detection Firm in Spotlight. George Dickson never knows where the next phone call will come from. It might be from Chile, Mexico, Haiti or New Zealand.

Earthquake predictions are measured more in decades than days and phrased as probabilities. However, detecting an earthquake and issuing a warning can be accomplished when there is the will to do so.

Seismic Warning Systems, a California-based earthquake early warning company is in the spotlight after the Japan earthquake. The company approaches earthquake detection differently.

Meanwhile, Japan was a world pioneer in an early earthquake detection system. “We have 1,000 stations around the Western US,” Jones says. “We need more like 2,000 or 3,000.” ...

Researchers in Spain have recorded the sound of the earthquake that shook Japan on Friday, March 11. The recording, now available online, was provided by a network of underwater observatories ...

A drone-based tsunami detection is taking shape along this famed surfing coastline to ensure a speedy evacuation of ...