IOWA CITY, IOWA (AP) -- New high-tech seismometers are coming soon to Iowa to help geologists predict possible earthquakes.
Scientists are especially interested in learning more about little-known fault lines that caused the unusual quake near Chicago last month.
Since 2004, scientists have been moving a string of 400 seismometers around the country as part of a study called EarthScope funded by the National Science Foundation.
Raymond Anderson, the senior research geologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says a string of the new seismometers will be installed in western Iowa.
Anderson says the devices will be buried, but each will have a little communication tower on top that will communicate with a center in New Mexico.
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