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Monitoring Pacific Ocean seismicity from an autonomous hydrophone array

Christopher G. Fox, Haruyoshi Matsumoto, Tai-Kwan Andy Lau, 2001. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 106(B3): 4183–4206.

The design paper for the eastern equatorial Pacific autonomous hydrophone array, deployed continuously from May 1996 to record low-frequency sound in the SOFAR channel and locate earthquakes and volcanic activity along the East Pacific Rise and Galápagos Ridge. Describes instruments, moorings, location algorithms and errors, and compares results with SOSUS.

MYS0D9C766T24XP · mystery · click to copyMBloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean soundsArticledoi: 10.1029/2000JB900404Checked against the original0

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The instrument that recorded Train, Whistle, Julia and (per later accounts) the Bloop.

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Fox, C. G., Matsumoto, H., & Lau, T. K. A. (2001). Monitoring Pacific Ocean seismicity from an autonomous hydrophone array. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 106(B3): 4183–4206. https://doi.org/10.1029/2000JB900404
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