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Earthquakes, including the recent major quakes in Chile and Haiti, release energy that radiates two kinds of seismic waves: compression waves (P waves) and shear waves (S waves). […]

It takes a village of scientists, engineers, and ship’s crew to conduct a research expedition like this off the coast of Chile in February 2017. The expedition’s chief scientist, Read More

A team of researchers worked well past sunset on the shore of Yellowstone Lake in 2016 to section and catalog a core they had taken from the lake bed earlier […]

A new study changes our understanding of how lavas are formed at volcanic arcs, and may have implications for the study of earthquakes and the risks posed by […]

WHOI senior engineering assistant Dan Kot refurbishes one of the glass pressure housings from an ocean-bottom seismograph (OBS). This type of seismograph is used to measure the movement […]

A new grant from The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation will help WHOI fund a three-year collaboration with Cape Abilities—a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding good jobs […]

In March 2011 one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded shook Japan, creating a tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and resulted in the largest unintentional Read More

WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin (right) with summer student Yen Joe Tan observe waves created during a tsunami experiment at Trunk River in Falmouth, Mass. Lin and colleagues have studied […]

In September 2013 WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler traveled with a group of Japanese colleagues to the northeastern coast of Japan within one kilometer (one-half mile) of the damaged nuclear […]

Onlookers on shore and at sea enjoyed a clear view of the Golden Gate Bridge during a recent R/V Atlantis transit. WHOI ships often make Read More

The Pacific “Ring of Fire” produces some of the most destructive earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions on Earth, including the 2011 Japan mega-quake and tsunami. WHOI […]

During a recent trip to Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, WHOI guest student Chris Maio assisted in the collection of sediment cores from the Beluga Slough salt marsh. The trip was funded […]

Ocean trenches, such as the Kermadec (shown here) near New Zealand, exist where one of Earth’s tectonic plates is sinking and sliding beneath another. This process, referred to as […]

When WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin was a high school student in China, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the city of Tangshan, killing 250,000 people. The event inspired Lin […]

After cutting samples of basalt rock dredged from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge for scientific analyses, geochemist Cedric Hamelin from the University of Bergen in Norway used some leftovers to create an […]

Scientists aboard the R/V Atlantis recover an ocean-bottom seismograph (OBS) off the Galapagos Islands. Seismographs measure movement in the Earth’s crust, and scientists use data from these instruments to […]