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 ...

The earthquake that struck Japan early this morning was the worst seen in that country for over 300 years (with a local magnitude of 8.9). Hundreds have been killed and injured so far, but the ...

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.

Japan Railways trains automatically halt when the earthquake detection system kicks in. In 2022, a bullet train derailed after a 7.4-magnitude quake, but none of the 78 passengers and crew were ...

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

Google is rolling out life-saving earthquake alerts to Wear OS smartwatches, bringing real-time seismic warnings straight to your wrist in 2025.

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.” ...