Geophysics articles from across Nature Portfolio

Seismic data from the Turkana Depression in East Africa show that areas of thinned lithosphere are not necessarily persistent weak zones where extension and magmatic provinces will develop.

In this study, machine learning accurately predicts meter-scale laboratory quakes from tiny foreshocks, bridging the scale gap between laboratory and natural earthquakes and offering insights into short-term earthquake forecasting.

This study identifies regions and features of three stages of plateau evolution in the present-day Tibetan Plateau, based on structural features of intra-crustal low-velocity zones, depth of the crust-mantle boundary and surface topography.

Measurements show how flat this reflective lake in Bolivia really is, despite the wind blowing across it.

Orbiters can pick up gravitational shifts thousands of kilometres below the surface.

An analysis of seismic waves propagating through Mars finds evidence that the planet has a small, solid inner core, which challenges existing planetary models.

As Earth’s magnetic field has risen, so have the conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant planets.

Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly 3,000 kilometres below the surface.

Hint: it’s less than 1% — a lot less.