How strong is Hurricane Irma? Its registering on earthquake-detecting seismometers

[bathroommonkey76]

Hurricane Irma is the strongest storm forecasters have ever seen develop in the Atlantic—and it’s so intense that scientific instruments have started confusing it with another terrifying natural disaster: earthquakes.

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On Tuesday, just as forecasters upgraded Irma to a Category 5 storm, scientists started picking up background noise from the storm on their earthquake-detecting seismometers, according to the Independent.

Winds battering trees, giant ocean waves and other sounds that Hurricane Irma has unleashed on islands like Guadalupe are what made it possible for earthquake-measuring devices to pick up the storm.

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article171359692.html

[Egnever]

1. I love the coast

but this stuff is getting serious.

[blue neen]

2. Geebus!

This is frightening!

[Not Ruth]

3. While I hate the idea of climate change, it is showing the power of nature in the extreme

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Was running errands, just now checked..a Cat 5 ??!! already?

We may need a new scale.

with any luck, that tropiical storm in the West of the Gulf, will continue moving east and help move Irma by sunday.

[Binkie The Clown]

5. When I took a geology course many years ago, the prof. said normal ocean waves register

on seismographs as constant "background noise".

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Wow, for a hoax that global warming is pretty impressive

[raven mad]

7. It won't get better.

Read this: science based, 2008, novel, "Category 7", by Bill Evans and Marianna Jamison.

https://www.amazon.com/Category-7-Bill-Evans/dp/0765356716

Hell yeah, we should be afraid.