It is hard to measure the stress in-situ, while changes in seismic wave speed can reflect changes in the zone. Hence, temporal variation monitoring of wave speeds has become an important means of ...

Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For ...

This type of flow form of mantle convection, moves heat through Earth’s interior and reshapes how we think about the planet’s ...

ETH Zurich scientists confirmed that solid rock flows deep inside Earth, solving a decades-old mystery about seismic waves.

Almost 3,000 kilometers underground, a seismic mystery has been solved as earthquake waves anomalous behavior is finally ...

Deep beneath our feet, around 2,700 kilometers below Earth’s surface, lies a region that has puzzled scientists for over five ...

The D" layer, some 2,700 kilometers (nearly 1,700 miles) below our feet, has been mystifying scientists for decades.

To do this, the researchers measured the speed of seismic waves in their experiment and were also able to reproduce the jump that occurs at the D" layer in the laboratory. "We have finally found the ...

A mysterious zone in Earth's mantle is constantly in motion. Scientists have discovered that something is travelling deep ...

To do this, the researchers measured the speed of seismic waves in their experiment and were also able to reproduce the jump that occurs at the D" layer in the laboratory. "We have finally found the ...