The Southern Cross NEXT is a 15,857-kilometre (9,853-mile) network of submarine cables that links Sydney and Auckland, as ...

Earthquakes have been detected in the Pacific Ocean using cable-based ocean monitoring techniques employed by scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and New Zealand’s Measurement ...

Ultra-stable laser technology is being used to detect earthquakes in the Southwest Pacific thanks to an inventive method ...

A submarine telecommunications cable connecting New Zealand and Australia is doubling as an earthquake sensor, in a new trial ...

When comparing the original laser signal with the light that exits the fiber optic cable, researchers can determine the strength of the seismic wave by checking how much the beam was distorted. Data ...

Imagine a heavy book resting on a table. If you try to gently push the book across the table with the tip of your finger, it ...

Imagine a heavy book resting on a table. If you try to gently push the book across the table with the tip of your finger, it may first appear to ...

Sir John Pendry’s lecture showed how engineered materials make sci-fi real, from invisibility cloaks to microscopes revealing ...

LEGAZPI CITY — A magnitude 2.2 earthquake struck eastern Camarines Norte on Tuesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said in a bulletin. The earthquake was ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) detected five of them near the San Andreas Fault, fueling ongoing fears of the long-anticipated "Big One".

The subhead on the Times Union’s story about the seismic event read: “Houses Tremble, Theatres Empty and Folks Near Panic as Ma Earth Does Gentle Shimmy." ...

An earthquake of magnitude five on the Richter scale struck Assam's Morigaon district in the early hours of Thursday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). According to NCS ...