Earthquake: An earthquake is a dangerous natural disaster that causes significant damage to life and property worldwide every ...

Large quakes produce shaking at a variety of frequencies. Some waves can travel hundreds of miles, and are amplified by local geological conditions.

The magnitude-7.7 earthquake that hit Myanmar on 28 March has killed at least 2,700 people, with the final death toll ...

A massive 7.7 earthquake originating in Myanmar has collapsed buildings over 600 miles away in Bangkok, Thailand ...

A recording of an earthquake has recognizable characteristics. Typically, one can recognize the arrival of different wave types. The P waves (the fastest traveling waves), S waves, and Surface waves ...

The core itself consists of a solid inner core and a liquid outer core. There are three types of seismic waves – P waves, S waves and surface waves. P waves are longitudinal waves, and their ...

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is capable of finely characterizing the velocity structure, anisotropy, viscoelasticity, and attenuation properties of subsurface media, which provides critical ...

Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismometers. These scales account for the distance ... the building (or other structure) design, and the type of surface material ...

Seismic readings of the interior of Mars strongly suggest large quantities of water buried 6 to 12 miles underground.

Seismic waves can travel much farther through the Eastern type of rock — which is old, cold, and dense — before they decay and dissipate. "Earthquakes on the East Coast are felt much further ...