Movers and shakers

• Autores: Kate Ravilious
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3083, 2016, págs. 34-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It's the summer of 2012, and in a field outside the French Alpine city of Grenoble, a group of civil engineers are doing what they do best: boring. Each of the 30 or so holes they are drilling into the soft sediment would support a telegraph pole. But Sebastien Guenneau, the researcher directing the operation, has more ambitious plans in mind. He's come here today to start an earthquake. Guenneau, a physicist at the Fresnel Institute in Marseille, France, is one of a band of researchers aiming to shake up the way we deal with quakes. Here, Ravilious determines whether people can manipulate the properties of matter to stop earthquakes in their tracks