Shooting light pulses down a 3-kilometer borehole could illuminate seismic hazards

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Oct 6, 2026, 1:00 pm234 ptsTop
A better understanding of how earthquakes occur and what happens during a rupture is important for assessing seismic risk. Small earthquakes, which are more frequent than large ones, are a tempting data set, but they're hard to study, in large part because their energy is quickly sapped as it travels through…

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