The Nature group, publisher of some of the most prestigious journals in the international scientific community, has published on the Nature website. The Meglio project (Measuring Earthquakes signals Gathered with LaserInterferometry on Optic Fibers) is a collaboration set up by Open Fiber, the National Institute of Metrological Research (Inrim) and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv).
During a two-year experiment, several dozen seismic events were recorded, from the most disastrous, such as the earthquake that occurred in Turkey in February 2023, to those that were almost imperceptible (with a magnitude less than 2). An in-depth analysis of the recordings, led by the INGV, confirmed the validity of the recorded data and the potential of this technique as a permanent and capillary monitoring tool. The results obtained by Meglio, a project started in 2020, saw the creation of a seismic observatory that uses a pair of Open Fiber optical fibers between Ascoli Piceno and Teramo.