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If the machines that measured the 2 black holes colliding had to be extra precise and insulated as well as costing millions...what are the chances to detect changes in gravity due to an earthquake?

Does a much much much lower distance compared to the black holes allow for less sensitive and expensive machines?

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I don't know the details of this, but a guy I worked with once told me he did work detecting underground structures using gravity measurements. I guess there's lots of relatively affordable equipment to so something like this.

https://archive.epa.gov/esd/archive-geophysics/web/html/grav...

Gravitation and any other field phenomena generally adhere to the law of inverse squares where the strength of the field decreases exponentially with linear distance change so without calculation I would say proximity for gravity detection would (generally) trump the initial strength of the field point

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