Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could transform our understanding of plate tectonics.

Now, researchers have connected 49 seismic events to impact craters, proving that meteorite strikes leave distinct seismic ...

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

Miller at Australian National University, concluded that the unusually long seismic wave could have been due to a "low-velocity layer at the base of the subducting Alboran slab." Seismic waves are ...

Scientists have known that seismic waves slow down when passing through ultra-low velocity zones, or ULVZs, but only knew ...

Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs ... "The only thing that we know of these is that when seismic waves travel through these places, they slow down." ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

And we see that seismic waves slow down there." Earth scientists therefore call these regions "Large Low Seismic Velocity Provinces" or LLSVPs. "The waves slow down because the LLSVPs are hot ...