The author writes, “In August 2024, the Hyūga-Nada earthquake erupted off the southeast coast of Japan near the Nankai Trough, where a plate of ocean crust plunges into the mantle. The magnitude 7.1 ...
If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables connected to sensors set atop the fault lines where Japan’s earthquakes begin.