Science news articles about 'distant earthquakes'

... on two occasions the shifts came after the fault zone was disturbed by seismic waves from large, distant earthquakes, such as the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake. Pressure from these waves may have ...

... found that in rocks far beneath southern Idaho and northwestern Wyoming, seismic energy from distant earthquakes slows down considerably. Using the recently deployed seismometers, Schutt and Dueker ...

... (intended for studying the Earth's rotation) became capable of detecting even smaller rotations from distant earthquakes. Ring laser observations at Wettzell, Germany and at Piñon Flat, California ...