The released energy travels in the form of waves called seismic waves. It is this released energy that puts human beings and human structures in danger. Therefore, it is critical to understand ...

Perfect for senior undergraduates and first-year graduate students in geophysics, physics, mathematics, geology and engineering, this book is devoted exclusively to seismic wave theory. The result is ...

A Chinese spacecraft that burned up high over Los Angeles created a sonic trail detected by ground-based sensors.

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The S wave shadow zone is the area of the Earth’s surface where S waves are not detected following an earthquake. This shadow zone has led geologists to a model of the Earth with a solid mantle ...

Fifteen minutes before the massive January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, a seismic wave was recorded by two distant seismic stations. Now, researchers argue that similar ...

Other new and expanded topics include anisotropic seismic signatures, borehole waves, models for fractured media, poroelastic models, and attenuation models. This new edition also provides an enhanced ...

Israel's powerful airstrike in Syria was measured as a 3.1 magnitude earthquake. Learn how big explosions compare to natural ...

Basically, a seismic wave is generated underneath the earth's surface, and then picked up by sensors called "geophones" as the waves bounce off subsurface formations -- that is, layers of rock ...

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These plates move slowly, but can cause earthquakes and volcanoes where they meet. The seismic waves produced by an earthquake are monitored and tracked. The Earth is almost a sphere. These are ...