While it seems unlikely that existing systems could have done much to avert last week’s tragic events in New Zealand, The Engineer reports on recent developments by UK and Russian engineers working on a satellite system able to detect the subtle electromagnetic signals released as stress builds up in the earth prior to an earthquake.
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