X-Raying the Earth with Waves from Stormy Weather "Bombs" (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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X-Raying the Earth with Waves from Stormy Weather "Bombs" (1 of 2)

Caption

An Atlantic "weather bomb," or a severe, fast-developing storm, causes ocean swells that incite faint and deep tremors into the oceanic crust. These subtle waves run through the earth and can be detected in places as far away as Japan, where facilities using a method called "Hi-net" measure the amplitude of the storm's P and S waves for the first time. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 26, 2016, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Nishida at University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Teleseismic <i>S</i> wave microseisms."

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Kiwamu Nishida and Ryota Takagi

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