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The Energy Budget of Earthquakes

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Seismic Wave Travel Paths , Fabio CRAMERI ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake   (Jennifer CHU, MIT News ; September 16, 2025) https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-geologists-discover-where-energy-goes-during-earthquake-0916 Featured Research Article: “Lab-Quakes”: Quantifying the Complete Energy Budget of High-Pressure Laboratory Failure (ORTEGA-ARROYO et al. , 2025) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025AV001683

Why is Earth's Inner Core Solid?

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Hand drawn layers of the Earth , Pikisuperstar;  Freepik Hidden chemistry of Earth's core revealed by how it froze (News Release, University of Oxford ; 4 September 2025) https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/hidden-chemistry-earths-core-revealed-how-it-froze Featured Research Article: Constraining Earth's core composition from inner core nucleation (WILSON et al. , 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62841-4 Dynamo Theory - Outer Core Convection and Magnetic field generation , Andrew Z. COLVIN ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link