Hidden Deep Beneath Mars, Scientists Find Evidence of a Vast Magmatic System
Seismic evidence suggests Mars may have developed vast, long-lived magmatic systems that repeatedly reshaped its crust despite lacking…
AI Detects Hidden Warning Signs Before Major Earthquakes
Unsupervised machine learning, combined with the analysis of earthquake sequences as interacting events, can help identify precursor signals…
Scientists Used AI to Find Hidden Earthquake Signals Along the San Andreas Fault
Predicting earthquakes has been an impossible dream for seismologists practically since the discipline first emerged over 150 years…
Seismic evidence for a melt-depleted lower crust and transcrustal magmatism on Mars
Selection of the seismic velocity model The literature presents a wide range of seismic velocity models for the…
A Quiet Quantum Revolution in Earth’s Deep Interior
At depths below 1,000 kilometers in Earth’s mantle, pressures exceed 1 million atmospheres, temperatures are hotter than lava…
Earth’s Crust Is Tearing Open in Africa, and It Could Form a New Ocean
Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling…
Scientists Say a Hidden Structure May Exist Inside Earth’s Core
Scientists have found evidence that Earth’s inner core may contain a previously unknown layer, suggesting the planet’s center…
Indonesia earthquake damages buildings, triggers tsunami waves
TOPSHOT – Police officers look at a building of the North Sumatra’s National Sports Committee of Indonesia (KONI)…
New Research Identifies Moonquake Dangers That Could Threaten Future Lunar Missions
New research suggests that subtle tremors beneath the lunar surface, not meteor strikes, may be responsible for reshaping…
Most Earthquake Energy Becomes Heat, Not Shaking
A scanning electron photomicrograph highlights a region of rock that slipped during a laboratory-induced earthquake. The “flowy” central…
Scientists Discover Mars Has an Earth-Like Core
The findings will help guide scientists towards a better understanding of Mars’ evolution as a planet. Credit: JPL-Caltech…
Around 90% of an Earthquake’s Energy Doesn’t Do What You Think It Does
Earthquakes can be deadly and disastrous. But what we feel may constitute a tiny sliver of an earthquake’s…