phenomena we experience at the surface like earthquakes and volcanism,” said Claire Richardson, a doctoral candidate in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University ...

To monitor earthquakes in the field, instruments are placed at the Earth's surface, far away from the depth where earthquakes typically occur, which Shokouhi said forces scientists to make ...

Seismic waves are shock waves that propagate through Earth's layers after an earthquake or explosive event, traveling at different speeds depending on the density and state of the material.

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface. The outermost layer of Earth, the lithosphere, is composed of solid ...

Waves that ripple from Earth's centre can be used to sense what it's made of ... the team called on the power of the Piz Daint supercomputer to process data from every kind of earthquake wave our ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside ... we know about Earth's innards has come from stitching together different seismographs created from different individual earthquakes across the ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history. Our history. Research shows there are little-known ...

A reader donation page offers $5/month and $50/year tiers, with a promised birthday shout out for contributors (though it’s worth noting, Nieman Lab’s faux birthday wasn’t shouted out after a test $5 ...

Scientists have discovered massive structures deep inside Earth, beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. These structures are continent-sized regions with temperatures much higher than their ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the ... analyzed the waves of earthquakes traveling through these regions of the Earth. As ultrasound can reveal structures deep ...