#seismic-monitoring

#seismic-monitoring

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier - the disintegration of which could send between two and 10 feet of devastating flooding to coastal communities worldwide. This stunning finding, published in a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that this gigantic behemoth of ice, which is almost as big as the island of Great Britain,

There was a time not that long ago in the United States when the federal government did not warn people about tsunamis in the aftermath of earthquakes. We learned the hard way - after a deadly wave traveled all the way across the Pacific - why we needed to invest in such a system. MIKE WEST: It was started in 1946, after an earthquake from Alaska killed 150 people in Hawaii.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has cut funding for nine seismic stations in Alaska which act as an early warning system for tsunamis that could flood states like California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii. These nine Alaska sensors have helped protect the whole Pacific side of the US since the late 1990s, detecting major earthquakes that can trigger giant ocean waves which can strike areas hundreds or even thousands of miles away.