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Could Underwater Sound Waves be the Key to Early Tsunami Warnings?

By Michael Bishop | Cardiff University on Jan 24, 2018   Featured, Science/Education  

Could Underwater Sound Waves be the Key to Early Tsunami Warnings?

Mathematicians have devised a way of calculating the size of a tsunami and its destructive force well in advance of it making landfall by measuring fast-moving underwater sound waves, opening up the possibility of a real-time early warning system. The sound waves, known as acoustic gravity waves (AGWs), are naturally occurring and can be generated […]

New NOAA Effort Underway to Monitor Underwater Sound

By NOAA on Jun 9, 2015   At Sea, Featured  

New NOAA Effort Underway to Monitor Underwater Sound

Just how noisy is the ocean? Quiet enough to hear a pin drop or so noisy you can barely hear the person next to you? NOAA is now undertaking a novel effort to answer these questions. In 2014 NOAA began establishing its first-ever coordinated Ocean Noise Reference Station Network—a set of 10 undersea listening stations […]

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