Sentences with phrase «ocean floor seismometers»

Ocean floor seismometers will supplement land - based seismic data by providing measurements of the aftershocks on the seafloor.

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To take a closer look at these processes, a team led by scientists from Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory installed an array of seismometers on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, near the center of the Pacific Plate.

Results are pouring in from an ambitious project that has wired the floor of the northeast Pacific Ocean with an array of cameras, seismometers, chemical sensors and more.

So Wolfe and the PLUME team deployed an array of 70 retrievable seismometers on the ocean floor, which no major research group had ever done before.

It stirred up Atlantic Ocean waves that slammed into each other, started to shake the sea floor and then shook the Midwestern states so vigorously that the storm's progress could be tracked by seismometer.

But when Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, recently learned that two - thirds of the seismometers she placed on the floor of the Pacific Ocean were trapped more than 8,000 feet (2500 meters) underwater, it turned out to be an extremely good sign.