When a slab slides beneath an overriding plate in a subduction zone, the slab takes on a property called anisotropy, meaning ...

You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items ...

Scientists have been left somewhat bemused by seismic waves traveling around the world, because no one is completely sure what caused them. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in ...

In some parts of Earth's interior, seismic waves travel at different speeds depending on the direction in which they are ...

MIMIZAN, FRANCE—For an experiment with such ambition, the setting couldn’t have been more humble. Yet scientists from across Europe converged here—a dirt lane between a farmer’s field and a small wood ...

Earlier this month, a seismic event originated in the Indian Ocean, with its waves being felt as far away as Africa and Hawaii. The unexplained nature of this event, in addition to location of their ...

Researchers working in the Marsquake Service at ETH Zurich have been analyzing the measurements made by the NASA InSight mission’s seismometer on one of our neighbouring planets. For almost three ...

The fin whale’s call is among the loudest in the ocean: It can even penetrate into Earth’s crust, a new study finds. Echoes in whale songs recorded by seismic instruments on the ocean floor reveal ...

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 ...

High-frequency vibrations are some of the most damaging ground movements produced by earthquakes, and researchers have a new theory about how they're produced. Earthquakes produce seismic waves with a ...