A new study suggests using fiber optic cables on the ocean floor could track underwater fault ruptures and improve earthquake ...

Last winter, the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck miles off the California coast, prompting tsunami warnings for coastal regions and setting off aftershocks. This quake occurred in a highly active area ...

Deaths from high voltage wires could be prevented by using cheap and simple cable detectors. A farmer in Cornwall is the latest in a series of deaths over the years as the result of accidentally ...

These very words may have flown through an undersea cable before reaching your eyeballs. Hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optics crisscross the world’s oceans, shuttling emails, Netflix shows, ...

EARTH is observed as never before. Satellites track typhoons, monitor volcanic-ash plumes and catalogue the changing ways in which human beings use the land. The sort of high-quality imagery that, a ...

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 ...