A crewman pulls on undersea cable that will be laid in the Caribbean in this 2001 photo from the Port of Miami. These cables could serve as sensitive measures of Earth's movement, allowing earthquake monitoring in hard-to-reach areas. — TNS
Thousands of miles of undersea cables support our voracious demand for communication.
In the future, they also could reveal watery earthquakes.
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