Google and Facebook lay thousands of miles of undersea cables to ferry internet around the world Here s how they do it
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Google, Facebook lay thousands of kms of undersea cables to ferry internet around the world Here s how
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Laying an undersea cable in Spain, one of the 600,000-plus miles of fibre optic submarine cables. (Photo: ANDER GILLENEA/AFP via Getty Images, Getty Images)
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Many kilometres off the western coast of the Americas, an undersea cable connects Los Angeles, California to Valparaiso, Chile. Stretched end-to-end, it’s equal to four-fifths of the Earth’s diameter. The cable is fibre optic; it’s a lifeline for data transmitted between the two continents. But according to new research, the cable could easily serve a dual function: mitigating the disastrous impacts of earthquakes and tsunamis.
How Deep-Sea Fiber Optic Cables Could Transform Our Detection of Earthquakes
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