It’s what’s inside that counts, right? Well, this cheesy expression doesn’t just apply to one’s character. When researchers analyze a planet’s subsurface, knowing what’s on the inside helps them study ...

Seismology investigates how elastic waves generated by earthquakes and artificial sources propagate through the Earth. In exploration contexts, controlled-source seismic surveys use arrays of ...

Seismology and tectonics of continental interiors examine the processes and structures that govern earthquake occurrence, deformation and lithospheric evolution away from plate boundaries. Intraplate ...

Geophysics is the application of the methods and techniques of physics in the study of the Earth. It differs from Geology in that a geologist studies rocks and structures, which can be seen, while a ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 struck the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday morning. Check depth, coordinates, and National Centre for ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On July 25, 1946 the United States detonated ...

Aotearoa New Zealand experiences frequent earthquakes, including destructive ones such as those that struck Christchurch in 2010 and 2011, and near Kaikōura in 2018. In the South Island, the largest ...