Earths Interior News Today

An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck Sumatra Island in Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning. Learn about the country's geophysics agency, the Pacific Ring of Fire, and the seismically active zone where different plates of the earth’s crust meet.

The oscillation of giant magnetic waves happens every seven years and extends from the planet Earth's core.

According to the researchers at ETH Zurich, the Earth’s interior seems to be cooling down faster than expected. It may follow the footsteps of rocky planets Mercury and Mars �� The Earth’s Interior is Cooling Faster Than Expected, Says Research.

ETH Zurich's experts created a new measuring system. The equipment discovered that the Earth's interior is cooling faster than expected.

The cause of Earth’s deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a century, but a team of Carnegie scientists may have cracked the case. New research published provides evidence that fluids play a key role in deep-focus earthquakes—which occur between 300 and 700 kilometers below the planet’s surface. The research team includes Carnegie scientists Steven

Wide. so what causes sum unimaginable power? david rusk is a regional executive for the u.s. geological survey. thanks very much. as i understand it japan sits atop four tech tonic plates. what causes the shift? >> the earths interior is hot. a lot of plastic and core is molten, there is a constant series of movement what we call the tettonic plates. in the case of japan, these forces are causing one of the plates to dive beneath the other. pacific incarcerate is moving underneath the other. the...