british geological survey Archives

10 years of Soufriere Hills Volcano research published

The Soufriere Hills Volcano on Montserrat erupted in 1995, and an international team of researchers has studied this volcano from land and sea since then to understand the workings of andesite volcanos more completely.
“To the extent that the So…

The sound of the underground! New acoustic early warning system for landslide prediction

A new type of sound sensor system has been developed to predict the likelihood of a landslide.
Thought to be the first system of its kind in the world, it works by measuring and analysing the acoustic behaviour of soil to establish when a landsli…