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Rauschunterdrückungssysteme in Glasfaserkabeln können Bodenbewegungen messen. Mit Glasfasernetzen Erdbeben beobachten. Downloadvsao Journal April 2024 (PDF, 782 KB)vertical_align_bottom
ETH Zürich fiber-optic network aids earthquake detection. Monitoring phase noise improves assessment of ground deformations. DownloadSPIE optics November 2023 (PDF, 277 KB)vertical_align_bottom
Wenn der Vulkan ruft. Der Grindavik auf Island wird mit Laserpulsen überwacht. DownloadSüddeutsche Zeitung November 2023 (PDF, 466 KB)vertical_align_bottom
Warnung vor Vulkanausbruch nahe Reykjavik, es gibt Hunderte von Erdbeben. Erdbeben mit einer Glasfaser messen. DownloadNZZ November 2023 (PDF, 1001 KB)vertical_align_bottom
Mit Glasfasern Erdbeben und Tsunamis vorhersagen. Wie Forschende Erschütterungsdaten aus der Rauschunterdrückung gwinnen. ETH News November 2023
Im Wettlauf mit dem Beben. Wissenschaftler schaffen Frühwarnsysteme. DownloadBild der Wissenschaft 2023 (PDF, 533 KB)vertical_align_bottom
Wie Glasfaserleitungen bei der Erdbebenfrühwarnung helfen. Seismometer erkennen Bodenbewegungen, Glasfasern können das noch besser. external pageSpektrum 2023call_made
Warnung vor der Welle - Glasfaser als präziser Erdbebensensor. Download2023, Tagesspiegel (PDF, 153 KB)vertical_align_bottom
Experiments at EastGRIP Greenland. EastGRIP is an international science station and drilling camp on the greenlandic ice sheet. external pageEastGRIP July-August 2022call_made
Ice-covered volcanoes offer secret eruption warning . Researchers rely on the rumble of magma moving underground to predict impending volcanic eruptions. external pageScientific American September 2022call_made
Von der Erdbebenforschung zu Hirnuntersuchungen. Forscher arbeiten daran, Ultraschall für nichtinvasive Hirnuntersuchungen einzusetzen. external pageExplaining Science November 2022call_made
Fiber optics take the pulse of the planet
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls. external pageKnowable Magazine November 2022call_made
Glasfaserkabel spüren Erdbeben auf
DownloadArticle NZZ Glasfaser November 2022 (PDF, 626 KB)vertical_align_bottom
Erdbeben in der Telefonleitung
DownloadArticle Südkurier November 2022 (PDF, 327 KB)vertical_align_bottom
Ice-Covered Volcanoes Offer Secret Eruption Warning
Ice sheets amplify clues from Iceland’s hidden volcanoes.
external pageScientific American, September 2022call_made
Imaging the brain with ultrasound waves
As wave specialists, seismologists map the structure of planets from the information that seismic waves carry. Now, the team led by ETH professor Andreas Fichtner is also using this knowledge for medical imaging.
ETH Zürich, News July 2022
Fiber Optic Sensing Detects Tremor from Icelandic Subglacial Volcano
Researchers used a fiber optic cable on the ice cap of an Icelandic subglacial volcano to detect low-frequency volcanic tremor, suggesting this technology could be useful in monitoring other ice-covered volcano systems.
external pageArticle Seismological Society of America, July 2022call_made
Fiber optic sensing detects tremor from Icelandic subglacial volcano
Researchers used a fiber optic cable on the ice cap of an Icelandic subglacial volcano to detect low-frequency volcanic tremor, suggesting this technology
could be useful in monitoring other ice-covered volcano systems.
external pageArticle Physorg, June 2022call_made
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Researchers are weaving optical fibers into a low-cost network of seismic sensors that can probe Earth’s hidden dynamics
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Neue Möglichkeiten für Seismologen
Mit Glasfaserkabeln vor Gletscherabbrüchen warnen
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Fibre optics as an earthquake sensor
(Article in ETH News, 12.04.2019 by Peter Rüegg)
A new movement in Seismology
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Blick ins Herz der Finsternis
Download(Die Zeit, 2017) (PDF, 314 KB)vertical_align_bottom
Ein Scanner für die Frühdiagnostik von Brustkrebs
Download(Article KTI-Project, 2017) (PDF, 368 KB)vertical_align_bottom
Lava lake spotted by supercomputer
external page(Article in ScineceNode, May 18, 2016 by Lance Farrell)call_made
Was sagt uns die Welle?
2016, Die Zeit
Earth: The humming and whistling planet
external page(Article in ScienceNode January 27, 2016 by Simone Ulmer)call_made
Huge magma reservoir could be lurking under South Korean island
2016, Ian Randall
Where the Earth is humming and whistling
external page(Article in CSCS, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, January 19, 2016 - by Simone Ulmer)call_made
Ein schärferes Bild der Erdstruktur
(Article ETH News,18.06.2014, Felix Wüsten)
Zooming into the Earth's interior with a supercomputer
external page(Article in CSCS, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, March 18, 2014 - by Simone Ulmer)call_made
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