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Aug 24, 2011

Yesterday’s Earthquake, In Radiant Detail

This visual showing activity from seismometers throughout the country — courtesy of the National Science Foundation-funded EarthScope project Transportable Array — gives you a pretty good idea of just how big a wave of movement was caused by yesterday’s earthquake.

 
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