When an earthquake strikes, most of us imagine shaking buildings, cracked roads, and frightened people running for safety.

A recent study shows that earthquakes create complex sound waves in the ionosphere, which interfere with satellite signals, ...

The study unveils how seismic activity generates complex sound waves in the ionosphere, disrupting satellite communications ...

Published in the journal Earth, Planets and Space, their results show sound wave disturbance patterns in unique 3D detail and provide new insights into how earthquakes generate these waves.

Seismological research is directly related to the incubation, occurrence, and evolution of earthquakes. Scientists seek to ...

The study was focused on the Seattle Fault, located beneath the Puget Sound and the city ... impact of a ~7.5-magnitude earthquake on the Seattle Fault. Tsunami waves could be as high as 42 ...

Settling a half century of debate, researchers have discovered that tiny linear defects can propagate through a material faster than sound waves do ... ripped apart by an earthquake rupture ...

A pioneering new approach to wave ... they all study waves – including ocean waves, waves that make up mobile phone networks, waves used in X-ray machines and ultrasounds or the seismic waves ...

Scientists may have figured out the cause of some bizarre seismic waves echoing around the ... We legitimately do not know what they are," study co-author Michael Thorne, a University of Utah ...

Seismologists study earthquakes by looking at the damage that was caused and by using seismometers. A seismometer is an instrument that records the shaking of the Earth's surface caused by seismic ...

SEATTLE — A study published by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources this week shows a tsunami triggered by a major earthquake beneath Puget Sound would arrive at Seattle shores ...

The DNR said the study found waves may travel up to 3 miles ... But there’s a long history of earthquakes on faults in the Puget Sound,” said Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz.