Traveling Seismic Waves An animation from the USGS shows a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in southern California ...

Seismic waves were generated when Russia fired artillery, airstrikes and missiles across northern Ukraine.

These mysterious waves, known as PKP precursors, arrive just before a type of seismic wave known as PKP waves, which travel through the Earth during an earthquake.

An upside-down piece of hidden ocean crust has been revealed by mysterious seismic signals. The seismic waves, which came from an underground 2010 magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Spain, led scientists ...

In September 2023, a massive event in Greenland’s Dickson Fjord stirred the planet in ways no one could have expected. A tsunami originating from a landslide set off seismic waves that were ...

Scientists looked into decades of seismic wave data and found that it behaved differently in distinct parts of the cores.

Scientists successfully addressed mathematical challenges in conventional Spectral Matrix analysis, used to analyze three-component seismic signals, by introducing time-delay components. The new ...

So how can people receive an alert before they feel the shaking? The key is that electronic messages travel much faster than seismic waves, especially S waves.