Remember when Marshawn Lynch went all Beast Mode on the New Orleans Saints and caused an earthquake?
A French physicist and his colleague may have just found a way to detect earthquakes from space. Using a gravity field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) instrument, the pair discovered clear infrasound signals from a 2011 quake in Tohoku, Japan.
GOCE orbits Earth at an altitude of 260 kilometres and was designed by the European Space Agency to monitor tiny variations in gravity over the Earth’s surface using six accelerometers.
So the next time Lynch decides to enter Beast Mode it won’t just be heard ‘around the world’ but also the universe.
Photo credit: ESA/AOES MEDIALAB