The cause of Earth's deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a century, but a team of Carnegie scientists may have cracked the case.
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May 26, 2021
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Researchers have known for decades that deep earthquakes—those deeper than 60 kilometers, or about 37 miles below the Earth's surface—radiate seismic energy differently than those that originate closer to the surface. ...
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Jul 30, 2018
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A new study on how people feel the effects of earthquakes illustrates the value that members of the public can add to the scientific research process.
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Nov 23, 2016
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Nearly 25 percent of earthquakes occur more than 50 kilometers below the Earth's surface, when one tectonic plate slides below another, in a region called the lithosphere. Scientists have thought that these rumblings from ...
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Dec 23, 2013
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