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 ...

The distributed acoustic sensing market is projected to reach US$6.5 billion by 2033, growing from US$2.8 billion in 2026 at a CAGR of 12.9%. Pipeline monitoring remains the leading application, ...

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 ...

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 ...