Superstorm Sandy Shook the Earth

sciencehabit writes "When Superstorm Sandy struck the United States on 30 October, it didn't just devastate the Eastern Seaboard, it shook the ground as far away as the West Coast, producing tiny vibrations in Earth's crust that were picked up by seismometers there. Scientists can use this activity to track the path of the storm. Now, they say that analyzing past records of these vibrations may help them discern whether climate change has influenced the amount of storminess over the world's oceans in recent decades."

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Re:well, that's grasping

[Anonymous Coward]

As per the article, they're also planning to look at data from the pre-satellite era, and can use seismic data to fill in any gaps in the satellite network.

Re:Please stop

[BlackSnake112]

It became super storm when it joined up with other weather systems when it hit the north east. Prior to that it was just hurricane Sandy. Also the media needed to make the storm sound very bad to the average joe. Usually hurricanes are not that strong when they hit the north east. Many people would not and did not leave. Calling it super storm Sandy makes it sound worse to make people listen. Many people did not listen and go to higher ground. I know people who work for the Verizon. They had to go in to restore service. On some coastal towns they plowed the streets to clear the sand. In the plow banks they saw bodies. Well an arm or leg poking out of the sand.

Re:Seriously,

[Anonymous Coward]

"Global warming is a real measurable fact"

No, it is not. First - where have you been the last 10 years? Hiding the decline like "Big Academia"?

" For millions of years the carbon cycle was burying carbon and removing it slowly from the cycle"

You don't know this. If it was being removed (and not replenished in this ambiguous guess of a time period), it should probably be gone by now, and by the 'sound' argument that a trace gas is somehow responsible for most of the heat retention of the planet, we should by all accounts be a frozen ball of ice.

Re:Please stop

[Holi]

No the whole reason it is considered a super storm is it was th combination of two storm fronts. If they had missed, regardless of the damage it would not be called a super storm. Think of the "Perfect Storm" it wasn't called that because of the amount of damage caused, but because of the potential damage do to the power it produced. And it released an incredible amount of force, just most of it was impacted on empty ocean.