http://www.newsweek.com/east-antarctica-isnt-quiet-scientists-thought-region-has-earthquake-activity-956856 > Imagine yourself standing in East Antarctica, far away from the penguin-dotted coasts. (Not right now, in the middle of southern winter. Imagine it’s December or January, when the sun never quite manages to set and the temperatures are a little less lethally freezing.) Ice stretches out in every direction around you, a bare expanse of unbroken whiteness raked by the wind. > But the region isn’t as tranquil geologically as that description might make it sound, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience. In that study, scientists report the discovery of small earthquakes in East Antarctica, a phenomenon nobody has been able to measure before.