The findings suggested that something was dramatically slowing the earthquake waves to scatter their energy, Thorne said. The two likely candidates were valleys and ridges along the core-mantle ...

Zheng lays flowers at a monument in memory of people who lost their lives in the Wenchuan earthquake. [Photo by Wang Zhuangfei/China Daily] I was dozing off on a bus full of other tourists when ...

but new mysterious earthquake waves suggest this might be more widespread than initially thought. Speaking to LiveScience, Michael Thorne, a geologist and geophysicist at the University of Utah ...