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University of Texas at Austin

Borehole sensors

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Sensors and observation instruments being lowered into a borehole off the coast of Japan nearly 1,500 feet below the seafloor during an International Ocean Discovery Program mission in 2016. Sensors like these transmit data in real time to researchers in Japan and at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, and enabled researchers to detect and describe a slow slip earthquake in motion in a new study in Science.

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Photo courtesy of Dick Peterse - ScienceMedia.nl

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