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Shooting light pulses down a 3-kilometer borehole could illuminate seismic hazards

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  • Phys.org · October 6, 2026 17:00
    A better understanding of how earthquakes occur and what happens during a rupture is important for assessing seismic risk. Small earthquakes, which are more frequent than large ones, are a tempting data set, but they're hard to study, in large part because their energy is quickly sapped as it…