Geophysics

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How do we know what’s inside the Earth? Mostly from...

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On 10 July 1913, the caretaker at Greenland Ranch, a...

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If you’re new here, welcome to Geoscopy, a geology science-communication project dedicated...

In the early 2000s, petroleum geoscientist Philip Allen noticed a set of concentric rings...

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The Venezuela earthquake of 24 June 2026 began...

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By late January 2025, the residents of Santorini had stopped sleeping well....

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Two billion years ago, a rock between 20 and 25...

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On 6 June 1961, the needles on long-period seismographs scattered...

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Walk the bank of the Shanay-timpishka and the first thing...

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On a low rise of Arctic tundra near the Norwegian...

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Just before 11 p.m. on 8 September 2023, security cameras around Marrakech...

The Indian Ocean “Gravity Hole”: How Earth’s Largest Geoid Low Formed

New seismic imaging shows Bermuda is held up by a thick slab of cooled...

How a CCTV clip from the 2025 Mandalay earthquake rewrote seismology

The afternoon...

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Argoland is a lost continent that broke off northwest Australia roughly 155...

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In a fourth-floor office of the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering...

On a hillside in West Turkana, late-Miocene mudstones tilt toward the sky in alternating...

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On a hot morning in May 2021, Chris Kirkland, Tim Johnson and...

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In June 2024, a team led by Wei Wang and...

The Northern Appalachian Anomaly, Explained

In brief: The Northern Appalachian Anomaly...