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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday September 14 2016, @09:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the shake-it-up dept.

Scientists who study earthquakes in Japan said Thursday they have detected a rare deep-Earth tremor for the first time and traced its location to a distant and powerful storm.

The findings, published in the US journal Science, could help experts learn more about the Earth's inner structure and improve detection of earthquakes and oceanic storms.

The storm in the North Atlantic was known as a "weather bomb," a small but potent storm that gains punch as pressure quickly mounts.

Groups of waves sloshed and pounded the ocean floor during the storm, which struck between Greenland and Iceland.

Using seismic equipment on land and on the seafloor that usually detects the Earth's crust crumbling during earthquakes, researchers found something they had not detected beforeā€”a tremor known as an S wave microseism.

The researchers detected the shock waves generated by the North Atlantic storm from Japan, and have used them to gain more detail about Earth's interior.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @03:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @03:44PM (#401847)

    Numbnuts (GP) thinks that the sun setting or rising is an optical illusion. There's no point trying to help him.