Impending earthquakes can be detected in space (IMAGE)

The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences

Impending earthquakes can be detected in space

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In space you can see impending earthquakes. Not so literally, as in the above collage of photos, but still clearly – in the changes in the intensity of cosmic rays recorded by observatories on the surface of our planet.

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Source: IFJ PAN/NASA/JSC

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