Fenglin Niu of Rice University, Paul Silver of the Carnegie Institution and Tom Daley of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory gathered measurements from sensors in deep wells at the San Andreas fault In California.
by Zack Beauchamp
We have satellites to detect hurricanes, rainfall projections to predict floods and even tsunami detectors. All provide precious time to evacuate before the worst happens.
But despite more than 30 years of research, there is still no accurate earthquake detector, as China heartbreakingly found out earlier this year. The Sichuan Basin quake killed over 60,000 people.
But there is new hope: a team of researchers working in the Parkfield region of the San Andreas Fault in California believe that a novel approach for measuring seismic waves may hold the key to developing a practical, early-warning earthquake detector.
