This 8 minute video uses the analogy of a lightbulb to explain the how an earthquake ... think of it in terms of the energy released by explosives: a magnitude 1 seismic wave releases as much energy ...

Seismic waves bend and reflect at the interfaces between ... the egg as a model that represents the Earth. Caution: The egg analogy has some limitations. Eggshell pieces, for the most part ...

The incredible aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact—one of the most cataclysmic events in Earth’s history—is unfolding beneath the seafloor of Louisiana. New research has uncovered massive ...

University of Tsukuba Professor Yagi Yuji examined seismic waves from the quake to map out how fault rupture propagated. Yagi says rupture initiated from the epicenter and spread south for about ...

which uses "electrical energy . . . as a wave source" that "monitor[s] seismic wave energy" on dry, wet, and frozen diabase samples. Experimentation revealed that the seismic velocities of the dry ...