A group of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has unveiled a pioneering method to measure soil moisture in the vadose zone-the shallow region between the earth's surface ...

A project at Caltech has developed a fiber optic-based method to measure soil moisture in the shallow subterranean region between the surface and underground aquifers. Reported in Nature ...

Imagine repurposing underground fiber optic cables, typically used for delivering high-speed Internet to California residents, to detect and measure earthquakes. That is the focus of a recent research ...

Zhongwen Zhan, 36, can trace one watershed moment in his life to a literal earth-shaking event. He was an undergrad student in China when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake ruptured the sea floor in the ...

Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables, already in place across California, can shake up the study of earthquakes. New research out of Caltech used a section of telecommunication fiber to sense and ...

Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) leverages fibre-optic cables to transform conventional telecommunication infrastructure into extensive sensor networks capable of recording acoustic and strain ...