Network for tracking earthquakes exposes glacier activity: Accidental find offers big potential for research on Alaska’s glaciers
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 1 May, 2014
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Alaska's seismic network records thousands of quakes produced by glaciers, capturing valuable data that scientists could use to better understand their behavior, but instead their seismic signals are set aside as oddities. The current earthquake monitoring system could be 'tweaked' to target the dynamic movement of the state's glaciers....