Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

That sudden breaking of the foam rubber is the earthquake. That's what happens along a strike-slip fault. Seismic waves can also be caused by natural processes other than earthquakes and by human ...

The SEIS instrument, which contains the seismometer, uses the seismic waves naturally generated on Mars from Marsquakes or ...

There are a number of ways to measure the magnitude of an earthquake. Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismometers. These scales account for the distance between ...

A surface wave travels along the surface of the Earth. It is the slowest of the three types of seismic wave. Surface waves usually have larger amplitude than the other waves and cause the most damage.

On March 28, 2025, a powerful Myanmar earthquake sent shockwaves throughout the country, raising questions about the nation’s ...

Two Japanese seismic researchers have shared their respective analysis on last week's powerful earthquake that struck near ...

An earthquake is an intense shaking of the ground caused by movement under the earth’s surface. It happens when two blocks of ...

The Seismic Monitoring and Research Group at the Department of Geosciences, University of Malta, confirmed that three of its ...

The reason why skyscrapers fell in Bakong at a distance of 1400km away from the epicenter was mainly because the seismic ...