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Eisbeben in Grönland treiben Eisströme voran. Download Bild der Wissenschaft März 2025 (PDF, 424 KB)

Ice quakes discovered kilometres inside Greenland ice stream. Download Cosmos March 2025 (PDF, 253 KB)

Ice moves in a cascade of quakes. Download Physics March 2025 (PDF, 320 KB)

Ice streams move due to tiny ice quakes. Download Physorg March 2025 (PDF, 457 KB)

Eisströme fliessen nicht wie Honig, sie ruckeln. Download Deutschlandfunk Nova März 2025 (PDF, 180 KB)

Tiny ice quakes take place in one of Greenland's mightiest ice streams. Download TECH EXPLORIST March 2025 (PDF, 229 KB)

Wie winzige Erdbeben in Grönland den Meeresspiegel beeinflussen. Download vdi Nachrichten March 2025 (PDF, 467 KB)

Scientists discover hidden ice quakes. Download The Times of India March 2025 (PDF, 280 KB)

Tiny icequakes ripple through Greenland's largest Ice stream. Download EOS. March 2025 (PDF, 1 MB)

In Greenland, the ice doesn't just flow, it quivers and quakes. Download New York Times February 2025 (PDF, 608 KB)

Versunkene Welten unter dem Pazifischen Ozean entdeckt. Download Stuttgarter Zeitung Januar 2025 (PDF, 2.3 MB)

Possible sunken worlds revealed by high resolution models of earth. Download Newsweek Januar 2025 (PDF, 1.3 MB)

Sunken worlds under the Pacific? High-res models reveal workings of Earth's mantle. Download Phys.org Januar 2025 (PDF, 887 KB)

Sunken worlds under the Pacific? Download ETH News Januar 2025 (PDF, 514 KB)

Rauschunterdrückungssysteme in Glasfaserkabeln können Bodenbewegungen messen. Mit Glasfasernetzen Erdbeben beobachten. Download vsao Journal April 2024 (PDF, 782 KB)

ETH Zürich fiber-optic network aids earthquake detection. Monitoring phase noise improves assessment of ground deformations. Download SPIE optics November 2023 (PDF, 277 KB)

Wenn der Vulkan ruft. Der Grindavik auf Island wird mit Laserpulsen überwacht. Download Süddeutsche Zeitung November 2023 (PDF, 466 KB)

Warnung vor Vulkanausbruch nahe Reykjavik, es gibt Hunderte von Erdbeben. Erdbeben mit einer Glasfaser messen. Download NZZ November 2023 (PDF, 1001 KB)

Mit Glasfasern Erdbeben und Tsunamis vorhersagen. Wie Forschende Erschütterungsdaten aus der Rauschunterdrückung gwinnen. ETH News November 2023

Im Wettlauf mit dem Beben. Wissenschaftler schaffen Frühwarnsysteme. Download Bild der Wissenschaft 2023 (PDF, 533 KB)

Wie Glasfaserleitungen bei der Erdbebenfrühwarnung helfen. Seismometer erkennen Bodenbewegungen, Glasfasern können das noch besser. external page Spektrum 2023

Warnung vor der Welle - Glasfaser als präziser Erdbebensensor. Download 2023, Tagesspiegel (PDF, 153 KB)

Experiments at EastGRIP Greenland. EastGRIP is an international science station and drilling camp on the greenlandic ice sheet. external page EastGRIP July-August 2022

Ice-covered volcanoes offer secret eruption warning . Researchers rely on the rumble of magma moving underground to predict impending volcanic eruptions. external page Scientific American September 2022

Von der Erdbebenforschung zu Hirnuntersuchungen. Forscher arbeiten daran, Ultraschall für nichtinvasive Hirnuntersuchungen einzusetzen. external page Explaining Science November 2022

Fiber optics take the pulse of the planet
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls. external page Knowable Magazine November 2022

Glasfaserkabel spüren Erdbeben auf
Download Article NZZ Glasfaser November 2022 (PDF, 626 KB)

Erdbeben in der Telefonleitung
Download Article Südkurier November 2022 (PDF, 327 KB)

Ice-Covered Volcanoes Offer Secret Eruption Warning
Ice sheets amplify clues from Iceland’s hidden volcanoes.
external page Scientific American, September 2022

Imaging the brain with ultrasound waves
As wave specialists, seismologists map the structure of planets from the information that seismic waves carry. Now, the team led by ETH professor Andreas Fichtner is also using this knowledge for medical imaging.
ETH Zürich, News July 2022

Fiber Optic Sensing Detects Tremor from Icelandic Subglacial Volcano
Researchers used a fiber optic cable on the ice cap of an Icelandic subglacial volcano to detect low-frequency volcanic tremor, suggesting this technology could be useful in monitoring other ice-covered volcano systems.
external page Article Seismological Society of America, July 2022

Fiber optic sensing detects tremor from Icelandic subglacial volcano
Researchers used a fiber optic cable on the ice cap of an Icelandic subglacial volcano to detect low-frequency volcanic tremor, suggesting this technology
could be useful in monitoring other ice-covered volcano systems.
external page Article Physorg, June 2022

World Wide Web
Researchers are weaving optical fibers into a low-cost network of seismic sensors that can probe Earth’s hidden dynamics
                         external page (Article Science Journal, December 2021)

Neue Möglichkeiten für Seismologen
Mit Glasfaserkabeln vor Gletscherabbrüchen warnen
Download (Tagesanzeiger 2020) (PDF, 2.8 MB) external page (Article link)

Fibre optics as an earthquake sensor
(Article in ETH News, 12.04.2019 by Peter Rüegg)

A new movement in Seismology
Download (Article ACM, 2018) (PDF, 1.2 MB)

Blick ins Herz der Finsternis
Download (Die Zeit, 2017) (PDF, 314 KB)

Ein Scanner für die Frühdiagnostik von Brustkrebs
Download (Article KTI-Project, 2017) (PDF, 368 KB)

Lava lake spotted by supercomputer
Article in ScineceNode, 18 May 2016 by Lance Farrell

Was sagt uns die Welle?
2016,  Die Zeit

Earth: The humming and whistling planet
Article in ScienceNode 27 January 2016 by Simone Ulmer

Huge magma reservoir could be lurking under South Korean island
2016, Ian Randall

Where the Earth is humming and whistling
external page (Article in CSCS, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, January 19, 2016 - by Simone Ulmer)

Ein schärferes Bild der Erdstruktur
(Article ETH News,18.06.2014, Felix Wüsten)

Zooming into the Earth's interior with a supercomputer
external page (Article in CSCS, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, March 18, 2014 - by Simone Ulmer)