News tagged with seismic noise

Gravitational waves that are 'sounds of the universe'

Einstein wrote about them, and we're still looking for them -- gravitational waves, which are small ripples in the fabric of space-time, that many consider to be the sounds of our universe.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Seismometer noise includes signals from South Atlantic storms, 'footquakes' from soccer matches

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you wander up to a seismograph in a museum, unless you are lucky enough to be there right during an earthquake, all you will see is a small wiggly signal being recorded.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

A New Kind Of Lightning Discovered

When volcano seismologist Stephen McNutt at the University of Alaska Fairbanks's Geophysical Institute saw strange spikes in the seismic data from the Mount Spurr eruption in 1992, he had no idea that his ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Seismic noise unearths lost hurricanes

Seismologists have found a new way to piece together the history of hurricanes in the North Atlantic—by looking back through records of the planet's seismic noise. It's an entirely new way to tap into the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1




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Listening to the 9.0-magnitude japanese earthquake

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last year’s 9.0-magnitude Tohoku-Oki, Japan, earthquake was the fourth largest since 1900. However, because of thousands of seismometers in the region and Japan’s willingness to share their measurements ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NASA's proposed 'InSight' lander would peer to the center of Mars in 2016

A Phoenix-like lander that would mine the deepest hole yet into Mars- to a depth of 5 meters – and unveil the nature of the mysterious deep interior and central core of the Red Planet is under consideration ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IBM reveals five innovations that will change our lives in the next five years (Update)

Today IBM formally unveiled the sixth annual “IBM 5 in 5" (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (25) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Ocean cacophony a torment for sea mammals

With the constant churn of freighter propellers, the percussive thump of oil and gas exploration and the underwater din of military testing, ocean noise levels have become unbearable for some sea mammals.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Earthquake prediction still stymies scientists

(AP) -- The East Coast earthquake left more than just residents unaccustomed to feeling the ground shake and sway in a daze. It also surprised some scientists who spend their careers trying to untangle the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 7

Ancient faults still prove to be powerful

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a 5.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the East Coast Tuesday, the William & Mary geology department was in the middle of a faculty retreat.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Tsunami sensor detects mysterious background signal in Panama

An unusual signal detected by the seismic monitoring station at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's research facility on Barro Colorado Island results from waves in Lake Gatun, the reservoir that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New explanation for Hawaiian hot spot

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the US have suggested that volcanic activity in Hawaii could be fed by a giant hot rock pool 1,000 kilometers west of the islands and in the Earth’s mantle, rather than ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Scientists find odd twist in slow 'earthquakes': Tremor running backwards

Earthquake scientists trying to unravel the mysteries of an unfelt, weeks-long seismic phenomenon called episodic tremor and slip have discovered a strange twist. The tremor can suddenly reverse direction ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Drive test: NIST Super-stable laser shines in minivan experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a step toward taking the most advanced atomic clocks on the road, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have designed and demonstrated a super-stable laser ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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