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Secrets of Earth’s inner core revealed by large quakes

Seismic waves travel differently through innermost core than through outer section.
  1. Bianca Nogrady
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The reverberations from earthquakes as they bounce back and forth through the centre of Earth have revealed new details about the structure of the planet’s inner core, according to a study published in Nature Communications this week1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00496-1

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