The Israel Geological Survey said on the 8th it has laid a 55 km fiber-optic cable on the Dead Sea floor dedicated to earthquake monitoring. The cable runs in a zigzag route across the northern basin. The project uses distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to detect micro-vibrations and displacements along the fiber, effectively turning the line into a large-scale seismic sensor network.

2026-09-09

The Israel Geological Survey said on the 8th it has laid a 55 km fiber-optic cable on the Dead Sea floor dedicated to earthquake monitoring. The cable runs in a zigzag route across the northern basin. The project uses distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to detect micro-vibrations and displacements along the fiber, effectively turning the line into a large-scale seismic sensor network.