Acoustic sensing helps unused fibre optic cables detect earthquakes
Lab seismologist Gene Ichinose looks over an interrogator, an instrument that allows buried fibre-optic cable to be turned into thousands of virtual seismometers (Image: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
A study from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory involved transforming 80km of unused fibre-optic cable into 8,000 seismic sens
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