Research Scientist Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos co-authored an opinion piece for the San Diego Union-Tribune which details how fiber-optic seismometers have come to transform earthquake measurements in recent years, and how an ongoing dark fiber experiment in Imperial Valley has recorded a recent swarm of earthquakes occurring in the area. She co-wrote the piece with two seismologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. The authors are part of a collaboration between Berkeley Lab, LLNL, Rice University, and UC San Diego that was developed to explore the potential of distributed acoustic sensing deployed on dark fiber for measuring seismic waves traveling through the Earth’s subsurface and how that information can be used to characterize geothermal systems. Read the opinion piece here.San Diego Union-Tribune Opinion Piece Describes Earthquake Detection Using Dark Fiber1 min read
Research Scientist Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos co-authored an opinion piece for the San Diego Union-Tribune which details how fiber-optic seismometers have come to transform earthquake measurements in recent years, and how an ongoing dark fiber experiment in Imperial Valley has recorded a recent swarm of earthquakes occurring in the area. She co-wrote the piece with two seismologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. The authors are part of a collaboration between Berkeley Lab, LLNL, Rice University, and UC San Diego that was developed to explore the potential of distributed acoustic sensing deployed on dark fiber for measuring seismic waves traveling through the Earth’s subsurface and how that information can be used to characterize geothermal systems. Read the opinion piece here.