These mysterious waves, known as PKP precursors, arrive just before a type of seismic wave known as PKP waves, which travel through the Earth during an earthquake.

A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical ...

Different types and structures of minerals, as well as different amounts of liquid in the subsurface, can change the speed of seismic waves traveling through Earth, offering clues to the makeup of ...

As their names suggest, ULVZs slow down seismic waves, and scientists have known about these strange areas that tend to hang around hotspots, which are regions where mantle wells up through the ...

This is in part because if you were to plunge down 2,700 kilometers (1,700 miles), you would be jump-scared by seismic waves that accelerate when they hit the threshold of the D” layer.

They analyzed changes in the velocity of seismic waves traveling through the LA basin, tracking these changes in space and time between January and October 2023. Advanced Search.

They have demonstrated why earthquake waves change abruptly at a depth of 2,700 kilometres at the so-called D‘’ layer. The reason for this is a type of solid rock that nevertheless flows. This mineral ...

A diagram depicting how different seismic waves travel across Mars. (Image credit: Ikuo Katayama) With that in mind, Katayama and Akamatsu honed in on two transitional regions in the seismic data ...