Hurricane’s tiny earthquakes could help forecasters

As Sandy raged, the ground trembled.

Rumbles picked up by seismometers during Hurricane Sandy’s trip up the U.S. East Coast in 2012 originated from the storm’s eye, seismologists report in a paper to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Letters: Solid Earth. Listening for these rumbles could help meteorologists remotely monitor air pressure changes inside hurricanes and better predict sudden increases in storm intensity, the researchers propose.

“Seismology is opening up a new opportunity to look at things we’ve never seen before,” says Lianxing Wen, a seismologist at Stony Brook University in New York. “This seismicity could provide a supplementary way to look directly at the center of a hurricane system in real time.”

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