Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from ...

For 20 minutes on Nov. 11, 2018, strange seismic waves reverberated around the Earth for nearly 11,000 miles — and we have no idea what they were. No one felt them; nothing was destroyed by them; if ...

It was the USA's deadliest tornado in decades and the costliest ever recorded: The catastrophic EF5 twister that tore through Joplin, Mo., in May 2011 killed 158 people and injured over 1,000 in a ...

The Bermuda archipelago is actually resting on a 20-kilometer underplate that gives it enough lift to habitably rise well ...

In May 1997, a large earthquake shook the Kermadec Islands region in the South Pacific Ocean. A little over 20 years later, in September 2018, a second big earthquake hit the same location, its waves ...

An earthquake in Alaska causing seismic waves to penetrate the Earth's innermost inner core. Credit: Drew Whitehouse, Son Phạm and Hrvoje Tkalčic. Data captured from seismic waves caused by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Aug 06, 2020, 08:42am EDT Aug 06, 2020, 03:59pm EDT This article ...

July 25, 1946, the United States detonated the first underwater nuclear bomb in history. The explosion on a test site of the Bikini Atoll generated a supersonic shock wave, crushing the hulls of ...

Before Martian dust blanketed the solar panels of NASA’s InSight lander and brought about its end, the robotic mission felt two seismic events passing through the planet’s liquid metal core. Irving, ...

“Losing nine seismic monitoring stations can provide a really big geographic gap, and then it may take minutes for other seismic monitoring stations that are located very far away, for the seismic ...