This has many applications including early tsunami warning, but also offers a cheap alternative to acoustic monitoring with
a moored hydrophone array which requires a ship to retrieve the data.
When the QUEphone is ascending / descending it gets pushed around by the ocean currents so it can't be as accurate for locating the source of seismic events as
a moored hydrophone array, which is why it's called Quasi-Eulerian.
Not exact matches
To do this, the researchers use underwater microphones called
hydrophones on oceanographic
moorings to listen for the sounds made by marine mammals.