Superstorm Sandy Shook the Earth

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 19, 2013 @05:15AM from the shivers-down-the-spine-of-the-world dept.

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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Also by sunking2 · 2013-04-19 05:36 · Score: 3, Interesting

Scientists can now detect the vibrations from an ant walking. Ants must be becoming larger, more powerful, and are on the brink of world domination.
Re:well, that's grasping by Troed · 2013-04-19 05:40 · Score: 3, Interesting

Here's a graph on total cyclone energy over time. The global warming signal should be easily spotted:
http://policlimate.com/tropical/global_running_ace.png

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