Monitors get weird vibes from Antarctic

From Victoria, British Columbia, at a meeting of the Seismological Society of America

BERG-TO-BE. Iceberg B-15B resulted when B-15, its Connecticut-size parent berg seen here, broke in two. J. Landis/National Science Foundation

In August 2000, seismometers on islands in the South Pacific began picking up unusual signals coming from regions even farther south.