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Andreas Fichtner

Associate Editor, JGR: Solid Earth

Aerial view overlooking the Süleymaniye Mosque (foreground), the Golden Horn inlet, and other parts of Istanbul, Türkiye, at dawn
Posted inScience Updates

Telecom Fibers Are Sensing Earthquake Hazards in Istanbul

by Daniel Bowden, Ebru Bozdag, Ali Shaikhsulaiman, Andreas Fichtner and Özgün Konca 21 May 202428 May 2024

A fiber-optic cable below Türkiye’s earthquake-prone metropolis is offering new details about how seismic waves will rattle the city—and demonstrating the potential of a bigger monitoring effort.

A snowcat plows its way through snow with a rocky ridge in the background.
Posted inScience Updates

Sensing Iceland’s Most Active Volcano with a “Buried Hair”

by Sara Klaasen, Sölvi Thrastarson, Andreas Fichtner, Yeşim Çubuk-Sabuncu and Kristín Jónsdóttir 4 January 202214 May 2024

Distributed acoustic sensing offered researchers a means to measure ground deformation from atop ice-clad Grímsvötn volcano with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions.

Graphic showing ray-path sampling of Earth by the body-wave constituents of the seismic-event coda-correlation
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Earthquake-coda Tomography Boosts Illumination of the Deep Earth

by Andreas Fichtner 28 May 202027 January 2023

A new tomographic method based on correlations of seemingly chaotic earthquake coda waves yields otherwise unobservable arrivals, thus greatly improving illumination of the deep Earth.

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