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MERMAIDs detect distant earthquakes

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Free-floating observatories record seismic waves to help study Earth's interior.

Two small, mobile torpedo-shaped buoys plying the waters of the Mediterranean Sea have captured the seismic signature of a magnitude-7 earthquake occurring some 10,000 kilometres away. The earthquake, in the Aleutian Islands near Alaska on 24 June, was documented by two floating seismic observatories nicknamed MERMAIDs (for Mobile Earthquake Recorder in Marine Areas by Independent Divers), and reported in the journal Eos this week1 by a team led by Yann Hello of the Géoazur laboratory at the University of Nice in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.

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  1. Hello, Y., Ogé, A., Sukhovich, A. & Nolet, G. Eos 92, 337 (2011).

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Lubick, N. MERMAIDs detect distant earthquakes. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.583

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