Seismic testing involves blasting the seafloor with high-powered airguns (a kind of powerful horn) every 10 seconds and measuring the echoes with long tubes to map offshore oil and gas reserves. These ...

More than 21,000 people have signed a petition to ban a type of seismic testing licence, and now two MPs from different parts of the political spectrum are trying to get them banned too.

An important practical application of the EPSRC shaking table is seismic qualification testing of electro-mechanical plant. This usually involves shaking the equipment with simulated earthquakes to ...