Fiber-optic cables could be used to detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future missions. A scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has ...

Two recent studies suggest that fiber-optic cables laid directly on the moon's surface could potentially detect moonquakes, ...

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Transforming the Ftth fiber optic network into a true seismic event detector serving the country. By combining innovation, research, and training, Open Fiber has promoted the Atena Project, which, ...

When it comes to earthquakes, the earlier the warning, the better. While current seismometers can pick up minor tremors with precision, they're relatively short-ranged and expensive, but now, a ...

A project at ETH Zurich's Institute of Geophysics has demonstrated a way to enhance the ability of fiber-optic networks to sense deformation. Based on active phase noise cancellation (PNC), the ...

This map shows the three-mile, figure-eight loop of optical fibers installed beneath the Stanford campus as part of the fiber-optic seismic observatory. Thousands of miles of buried optical fibers ...

This tech could let the infrastructure carrying your data save water, too.

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 ...