How earthquakes in Chile have permanently deformed Earth
Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 20:00
in Earth & Climate
Earthquakes can permanently crack the Earth, an investigation of quakes that have rocked Chile over the past million years suggests.Although earthquakes can wreak havoc on the planet's surface, more than a century of research has suggested the Earth actually mostly rebounds after quakes, with blocks of the world's crust elastically springing back, over the course of months to decades, to the w...