HURRICANE Irma is so strong the storm is showing up on devices designed to detect massive earthquakes. The category 5 storm, which has now swelled to the size of France after making its first landfall in the Caribbean today, is registering on seismometers on the island of Guadelope. The measuring devise is located close to the sea, and waves crashing along the coastline caused by Hurricane Irma are reverberating along the island - generating seismic energy. The noise is also likely caused by high winds, which cause tiny motions in the ground, and also by trees swaying in the strong winds. Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at the University of Southampton, said: "What we're seeing in the seismogram are low-pitched hums that gradually become stronger as the hurricane gets closer to the seismometer on the island of Guadeloupe." But he hastened to add the hurricane isn't creating earthquakes, adding: "Earthquakes occur tens of (miles) deep inside Earth's crust, a long way from the influence