and even earthquake detectors. However, many people don’t know that what’s notable about these technologies is that they have some form of historical ancestor that ancient civilizations ...

But new observations from light-detection-and-ranging technology ... more paleoseismologists – or scientists who study ancient earthquakes – used a variety of tools to scrape at the dirt ...

These features are, in essence, the frozen-in-time remnants of ancient sand volcanoes that formed when seismic waves from a distant earthquake pressurized a subterranean layer of watery sand.