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This could open a new frontier on seismic study of the Earth's interior.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37177575
From, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6302/919
Seismic tomography is like an x-ray of Earth's interior, except that it uses
earthquakes for the illumination. Earthquakes are imperfect illuminators
because they are clustered on plate boundaries, leaving much of the interior
in the shadows. Using a seismic array in Japan, Nishida and Takagi detected
seismic waves that they attribute to a severe and distant North Atlantic
storm called a "weather bomb" (see the Perspective by Gerstoft and Bromirski).
The seismic energy traveling from weather bombs through the Earth appears to be
capable of illuminating the many dark patches of Earth's interior.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37177575
From, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6302/919
Seismic tomography is like an x-ray of Earth's interior, except that it uses
earthquakes for the illumination. Earthquakes are imperfect illuminators
because they are clustered on plate boundaries, leaving much of the interior
in the shadows. Using a seismic array in Japan, Nishida and Takagi detected
seismic waves that they attribute to a severe and distant North Atlantic
storm called a "weather bomb" (see the Perspective by Gerstoft and Bromirski).
The seismic energy traveling from weather bombs through the Earth appears to be
capable of illuminating the many dark patches of Earth's interior.