The first of these arrived in Yellowstone ~9 hours after the eruption—moving at the speed of sound, which is much slower than the speed of earthquake waves through the ground—and is evident on both ...

Earthquakes are monitored using a variety of tools and methods, including seismometers, GPS stations, and online mapping systems. Seismometers detect ground motion caused by seismic waves, providing ...

Seismology is the study of stress and changes in stress within the Earth and other planetary bodies, particularly earthquakes caused by slip and rupture along faults and by magmatic activity. The ...

The shield covered InSight’s seismometer, which captured data from more than 1,300 marsquakes over the lander’s four-year mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The impact crater is 71 feet (21.5 meters) ...

The lander, which arrived in 2018, deployed the first seismometer ever placed on the Martian surface. Over its four-year mission, InSight detected more than 1,300 marsquakes, some caused by internal ...

BALTIMORE — When a magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck Iran in October 2024, it took just 17 minutes for social media users to transform a natural geological event into an international nuclear conspiracy ...

A new study debunks claims that a magnitude 4.5 earthquake in Iran was a covert nuclear weapons test, as widely alleged on social media and some mainstream news outlets in October 2024, a period of ...

A new paper seeks to address these challenges by adapting a simple physics-based algorithm to include fiber optic data that can then be used hand-in-hand with traditional seismometer measurements.

"Excitingly, our method can combine fiber optic and traditional seismometer measurements, allowing fiber optic sensing to be included in existing earthquake early warning systems." Distributed ...

The DiTing dataset is a large-scale Chinese seismic benchmark dataset that has 641,025 high-quality P-wave FMP labels from >1300 broadband and short-period seismometers distributed throughout China ...

Scientists led from University College London placed 50 seismometers on the Atlantic Ocean seafloor in the Azores-Madeira-Canary Islands region. Their aim was to record the signals from ...