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Hypnotic animation reveals how seismic waves travel across Mars, months after NASA's InSight lander recorded quakes on the red planet for the first time.
On March 28, 2025, a major earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 struck Mandalay, central Myanmar (referred to as ...
Traveling Seismic Waves. An animation from the USGS shows a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in southern California. 3play_processed Raw Source Video Science. Science.
Because seismic waves are sensitive to water volume, the team of scientists were able to measure changes in seismic velocity, which in turn shed light on the flux of groundwater in the valley. You can ...
These mysterious waves, known as PKP precursors, arrive just before a type of seismic wave known as PKP waves, which travel through the Earth during an earthquake.
In September 2023, researchers worldwide picked up a strange seismic signal: repetitive shaking every 90 seconds for nine days. Even stranger, it repeated itself a month later. Experts have ...
Seismic waves were generated when Russia fired artillery, airstrikes and missiles across northern Ukraine. For the first time, researchers in Norway and Ukraine studied data from dozens of ...
This is very cool: seismometers deployed across the United States detected the seismic waves from the magnitude 5.9 earthquake that hit Virginia on August 23, 2011. In this animation showing the ...
Massive iceberg threatens Greenland village 03:08. A tsunami stemming from a landslide in a Greenland fjord, caused by melting ice, was behind a surprising seismic event last year that shook the ...
Waves from these quakes traveled through the core and up to North America, where they were recorded by EarthScope, a project that deployed portable seismic monitors across the U.S. between 2003 ...
A professor has converted the seismic waves from last year's historic Japanese earthquake into audio files. The results allow experts and general audiences to “hear” what the quake sounded ...
Traveling Seismic Waves. An animation from the USGS shows a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in southern California. 3play_processed Raw Source Video Science. Raw Source Video.