The Southern Cross NEXT is a 15,857-kilometre (9,853-mile) network of submarine cables that links Sydney and Auckland, as ...

A tsunami is a devastating sea wave, instigated by a submarine earthquake, a volcanic eruption, or a landslide. These waves disseminate from their source in all directions and are often barely ...

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A submarine telecommunications cable connecting New Zealand and Australia is doubling as an earthquake sensor, in a new trial ...

When comparing the original laser signal with the light that exits the fiber optic cable, researchers can determine the strength of the seismic wave by checking how much the beam was distorted. Data ...

Geologists listened in on undersea eruptions and earthquakes, while biologists ... the first time they had earmarked active nuclear submarines for dedicated science cruises.

Using ocean-bottom seismometers—normally deployed to study earthquakes—the researchers ... of Africa—one of the largest and deepest submarine canyons in the world. The instruments were ...