Malaysian Airlines MH370 contact lost

[Ditchdigger]

No sign of a seismic event over 4 on the Richter scale in the South China Sea for the day in question:-


Seismic Monitor (Monitor Sísmico) - The Latest Earthquakes in the Indian Ocean Region


I would have thought the engines hitting the seabed would have registered.

I was pondering the same thing, went researching, returned here and found that post. My research dug up this article about seismology and aircraft crashes:

http://www.ctbto.org/fileadmin/conte...ctrum_2/p1.pdf


It makes specific mention of Lockerbie, and Swissair. It does say that such events are typically equivalent to magnitude 2 or smaller though. It'll be interesting to see whether this incident will have left any seismological clues...