Katie Ariddle

That's Maureen Deneau, one of the researchers who worked on this.

She and her colleagues listened very closely to the Earth using sensors that are on the seafloor.

These sensors measure tiny changes in seismic signals, and that gives us some idea of what's happening inside the fault.

Well, it's probably too early to tell.

There's a lot of other factors to think about.

Population density and proximity to the ocean, for example.

We talked to another earthquake scientist not involved in this study, Chris Goldfinger.

He says that the potential for catastrophe because of this earthquake zone wasn't really understood until the mid-1980s.

And these kinds of studies will help us better understand and prepare for earthquakes.

We just need more of them.

These pots were from all over northern Europe, from what is now Denmark to western Russia.

And what they were looking at specifically was old food remains caked on the inside of these ancient pots.

It's a dish that existed even in more recent European history.

They did.

Oliver Craig, a senior author on the paper at the University of York, felt that while some of the dishes were a bit flavorless, he thought the berries were tasty.

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