From Victoria, British Columbia, at a meeting of the Seismological Society of America
BERG-TO-BE. Iceberg B-15B resulted when B-15, its Connecticut-size parent berg seen here, broke in two. J. Landis/National Science Foundation
In August 2000, seismometers on islands in the South Pacific began picking up unusual signals coming from regions even farther south. During the next 5 months, 13 separate groups of pressure waves traveled through the ocean depths for thousands of miles before they smacked into the islands and were converted into detectable ground motions.
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