It explains how seismographs detect seismic waves and calculate the earthquake's distance and magnitude, which was estimated at 7.1. The film highlights the devastation caused in Turkey ...

The first known earthquake detector was invented in 132 A.D. by the ... The waves that arrive between the P and S waves are waves that started out as P waves, but bounced off of features in the Earth ...

In a normal earthquake, the built-up tensions in ... of rumbling was also overprinted with what seemed to be the P- and S- waves of tiny tremors, explains Lomax, who spotted the faint pings ...

When earthquake energy is sent into these sedimentary ... of the waves that make you motion sick, versus the jittery P and S waves you get earlier,” Page said. Times staff writers Jim Buzinski ...

This event in the Pacific Northwest could cause an unprecedented rise in sea levels that can displace land and water, sinking three major cities.

"The waveforms look like an earthquake – the S (for shear) waves ... are much larger than the P waves (for primary)," Russo told USA TODAY. "Explosions typically do not produce large S waves ...

Primary waves or p-waves travel fast ... These cause the fast shaking of the earthquake. Shear waves or s-waves move slower, perpendicular to the direction of travel. Like shaking the end of ...

The earthquake occurred around 1:30 p.m. local time (2:30 a.m. ET) at a depth of 6 miles near Mandalay, the second-largest city in Myanmar, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was followed ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake hit around 12:50 p.m. local time (1:50 a.m. ET) on Friday, approximately 10 miles northwest of the town of Sagaing, near Myanmar’s ...

When and where did the earthquake occur? According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake hit around 12:50 p.m. local time (1:50 a.m. ET) on Friday, approximately 10 miles northwest ...