Scientists at the University of Bonn simulate that seismic
waves can be focused like in a parabolic reflector
In 2006 the island of Java, Indonesia was struck by a
devastating earthquake followed by the onset of a mud eruption to the east,
flooding villages over several square kilometers and that continues to erupt
today. Until now, researchers believed the earthquake was too far from the mud
volcano to trigger the eruption. Geophysicists at the University of Bonn, Germany
and ETH Zurich, Switzerland use computer-based simulations to show that such
triggering is possible over long distances. The results have been published in
„Nature Geoscience“.