When sports fans get really excited it seems like there's an earthquake – and scientists don't want to let that phenomenon go to waste. As the American football teams the Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers faced off in Seattle on the weekend, University of Washington seismologists with the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) planted seismographs to study the fanmade "earthquake" caused as a way of testing new sensors and software. .. Continue Reading Scientists use football fans to test earthquake detection equipment
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Tags: American Football, Communications, Earthquake, Internet, Seattle, Stadium,University of Washington, Washington
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