[OANNES Foro] Coral isotopes show quake history

[Mario Cabrejos]

Nature
Published online 18 July 2008 
doi:10.1038/454378a 
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080718/full/454378a.html

Coral isotopes show quake history
Absorbed carbon may also improve disaster forecasts.
Eric Hand 
Carbon isotopes trapped for thousands of years in coral skeletons could establish the long-term frequency of major earthquakes in southeast Asia and the South Pacific, and perhaps enable these events to be forecast.

Geoscientists have used corals before to look at earthquake history, by studying the terraced growth patterns that result.