Hey Jessica Irving! How are you? Anyway, what are distant quakes?

Question: Hey Jessica Irving! How are you? Anyway, what are distant quakes?
- Keywords:
  distant quake,
  science
Asked by anon-332714 to Jessica on 14 Oct 2022.
- Jessica Irving answered on 14 Oct 2022:
  
  Distant quakes are ones far away from the instrument which is detecting them. Distant quakes aren’t felt by humans – they are too far away. But we can still record ground vibrations from them with instruments called seismometers.