Researchers have discovered hundreds of hidden earthquakes beneath Antarctica using new seismic detection technology, according to Live Science. The remarkable finding: these quakes are occurring in an unexpected location beneath the ice sheet. The discovery overturns long-held assumptions that Antarctica was seismically quiet, revealing that the continent's underground is considerably more active than scientists previously believed.

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