Scientists record never-before-seen ‘ice quakes’ deep inside Greenland’s frozen rivers
In a first, researchers have recorded countless "ice quakes" that sporadically shake the Greenland Ice Sheet. These quakes may explain the jerky way that the island's frozen rivers move downstream toward the sea, the scientists say. Researchers detected these quakes by lowering a fiber-optic cable into a 1.7-mile-deep (2.7 kilometers)…
bubmagFebruary 12, 2025