Posts Tagged ‘Earth’

WFS News: Earth’s deepest forearc basin discovered

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T sajeev,Russel T sajeev Geologists have for the first time seen and documented the Banda Detachment fault in eastern Indonesia and worked out how it formed. Lead researcher Dr Jonathan Pownall from The Australian National University (ANU) said the find will help researchers assess dangers of future tsunamis in the area, which […]

WFS News: X-raying the Earth with waves from stormy weather ‘bombs’

Using a detection network based in Japan, scientists have uncovered a rare type of deep-earth tremor that they attribute to a distant North Atlantic storm called a “weather bomb.” The discovery marks the first time scientists have observed this particular tremor, known as an S wave microseism. And, as Peter Gerstoft and Peter D. Bromirski […]