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PT J
TI Seismic monitoring in the oceans by autonomous floats
BT 
AF SUKHOVICH, Alexey
   BONNIEUX, Sebastien
   HELLO, Yann
   IRISSON, Jean-Olivier
   SIMONS, Frederik J.
   NOLET, Guust
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C1 Univ Bretagne Occidentale, UMR Domaines Oceaniques 6538, Univ Europeenne Bretagne, CNRS,IUEM, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Univ Nice, Geoazur, UMR 7329, F-06560 Valbonne, France.
   UPMC Univ Paris 06, Univ Sorbonne, CNRS, LOV, F-06230 Villefranche Sur Mer, France.
   Princeton Univ, Dept Geosci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
C2 UBO, FRANCE
   UNIV NICE, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   UNIV PRINCETON, USA
UM LGO
IN DOAJ
IF 11.329
TC 29
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00639/75127/75513.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB Our understanding of the internal dynamics of the Earth is largely based on images of seismic velocity variations in the mantle obtained with global tomography. However, our ability to image the mantle is severely hampered by a lack of seismic data collected in marine areas. Here we report observations made under different noise conditions (in the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian and Pacific Oceans) by a submarine floating seismograph, and show that such floats are able to fill the oceanic data gap. Depending on the ambient noise level, the floats can record between 35 and 63% of distant earthquakes with a moment magnitude M >= 6.5. Even magnitudes <6.0 can be successfully observed under favourable noise conditions. The serendipitous recording of an earthquake swarm near the Indian Ocean triple junction enabled us to establish a threshold magnitude between 2.7 and 3.4 for local earthquakes in the noisiest of the three environments. 
PY 2015
PD AUG
SO Nature Communications
SN 2041-1723
PU Nature Publishing Group
VL 6
UT 000360352000008
DI 10.1038/ncomms9027
ID 75127
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