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…
32,000 Olympic Pools of Magma Nearly Erupted Beneath Atlantic Island
A massive “stealth” magma surge beneath Portugal’s São Jorge Island triggered thousands of earthquakes after rising almost silently…
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…
Volcanoes Send Tiny Warning Signals Before Eruptions. These Scientists Are Decoding Them
Science is a constant work in progress; despite breakthroughs, humanity still struggles to fully explain many natural phenomena.…
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…
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…