Geophysics articles from across Nature Portfolio

Geologists knew decades ago that a quake would strike southeastern Turkey, but precise prediction is still the stuff of science fiction.

Seismic waves travel differently through innermost core than through outer section.

Mariana Gómez-Nicolás describes how coastal groundwater discharge zones can be mapped with electrical resistivity.

Steven Franke explains how high-resolution radio-echo sounding (RES) data enable the reconstruction of past ice sheet behaviour.

The 'amorphous' solid is denser and could be water ‘frozen in time’.

Earthquake data hint that the inner core stopped rotating faster than the rest of the planet in 2009, but not all researchers agree.