Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. This article is more than 5 years old. Seismograms showing ...

An array of seismic sensors deployed to capture aftershocks from the 2018 magnitude 7.1 Anchorage earthquake also collected distinctive signals from hundreds of flights crossing over Alaska.

The mechanism facilitating the smooth movement of the oceanic lithosphere over the underlying asthenosphere (upper mantle) remains poorly understood. Recently, researchers from Japan investigated the ...