Internet cables are no longer just used for online traffic. Scientists are now using them to detect earthquakes, volcanic ...

Imagine repurposing underground fiber optic cables, typically used for delivering high-speed Internet to California residents, to detect and measure earthquakes. That is the focus of a recent research ...

Researchers are increasingly tracking natural hazards with internet cables, and their success could lead to them using the ...

A project at Caltech has developed a fiber optic-based method to measure soil moisture in the shallow subterranean region between the surface and underground aquifers. Reported in Nature ...

Zhongwen Zhan, 36, can trace one watershed moment in his life to a literal earth-shaking event. He was an undergrad student in China when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake ruptured the sea floor in the ...

Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables, already in place across California, can shake up the study of earthquakes. New research out of Caltech used a section of telecommunication fiber to sense and ...