Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from ...

It was the USA's deadliest tornado in decades and the costliest ever recorded: The catastrophic EF5 twister that tore through Joplin, Mo., in May 2011 killed 158 people and injured over 1,000 in a ...

In May 1997, a large earthquake shook the Kermadec Islands region in the South Pacific Ocean. A little over 20 years later, in September 2018, a second big earthquake hit the same location, its waves ...

For 20 minutes on Nov. 11, 2018, strange seismic waves reverberated around the Earth for nearly 11,000 miles — and we have no idea what they were. No one felt them; nothing was destroyed by them; if ...

The Bermuda archipelago is actually resting on a 20-kilometer underplate that gives it enough lift to habitably rise well ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Aug 06, 2020, 08:42am EDT Aug 06, 2020, 03:59pm EDT This article ...

July 25, 1946, the United States detonated the first underwater nuclear bomb in history. The explosion on a test site of the Bikini Atoll generated a supersonic shock wave, crushing the hulls of ...

An earthquake in Alaska causing seismic waves to penetrate the Earth's innermost inner core. Credit: Drew Whitehouse, Son Phạm and Hrvoje Tkalčic. Data captured from seismic waves caused by ...

Understanding what’s inside of a planet is like trying to figure out what’s inside of a gift without unwrapping it. But because we can’t simply tear open a planet, instead, we must rely on secondary ...

The data collected with the InSight lander revealed properties of the Martian core that could indicate why it is unfriendly to life. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...