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New Deep Sea Seismic Sensors

06/15/2005 1:22 PM

Scientists in France, have developed and are testing submersible seismic sensors that rest on the ocean floor. They will give 'real-time' data on underwater earthquakes which, as we recently witnessed in southeast Asia, can create deadly tsunamis. The engineers had to overcome a number of obstacles especially the "resistance of instruments and cables to enormous deep-sea water pressures"

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06/15/2005 1:36 PM

There are current plans for placing a system like this in the oceans around the US. The don't sit on the ocean floor though, they are tsunami alarm buoys.

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