Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Lake sediment cores in Guatemala reveal directional ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake, offering rare insight into ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

This hidden geological layer, located between 254 and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) beneath the Earth’s surface, covers ...

Between depths of 410 and 660 kilometers lies the mantle transition zone ... large-scale ocean bottom seismic experiment conducted at an Atlantic subduction zone," said Dr. Catherine Rychert ...

"Because of the use of this full-waveform method, we have a better representation of that important zone between the deep mantle and ... black—as revealed by seismic velocity measurements.

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

Crawford, W. C. (2025). Fine-scale crustal velocity structure at the lucky strike segment of Mid-Atlantic ridge from full waveform inversion of wide-angle seismic data. Journal of Geophysical ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...