SEISConn and the Seismic History of Connecticut.

"Fifteen seismographs placed in forests, farms and backyards across northern Connecticut picked up the vibrations of a 7.9-magnitude earthquake in Papua New Guinea on Jan. 22.

"That information arrived from 200 kilometers - 124 miles - under the Earth's surface, deep within the planet's upper mantle, below its crust. It will help geologists at Yale University and elsewhere better understand what lies underneath Connecticut. It will also help explain why the supercontinent Pangea split about 200 million years ago, forming the Atlantic Ocean and creating the continents of North American, South America and Africa.

"The data might also help explain why 'the Atlantic basin is opening and getting bigger and the Pacific Ocean basin is getting smaller' and why the continents rimming the Pacific are likely to bash into each other and form a new supercontinent hundreds of millions of years from now, according to Maureen Long, a Yale professor of geology and geophysics who is overseeing the Seismic Experiment for Imaging Structure beneath Connecticut, or SEISConn."

A recent Middletown Press article profiled various aspects of the work of SEISConn.

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Middletown Press:  Scientists using series of seismographs to study what's under Connecticut (10 SEP 17)