More recently, geophysicists were able to detect signs of deformation at several volcanoes in the East African Rift Zone—some of which were thought to be inactive.
It finally fell to two men from Cambridge University, a geophysicist named Drummond Matthews and a graduate student of his named Fred Vine, to draw all the strands together.
The speed of the inner core's rotation and whether it varies though are debated, and at least one geophysicist not involved with this study says nothing cataclysmic is happening here.
" If we want to describe what animals are doing, we first better understand what sounds are telling us." Evgeny Podolskiy, a geophysicist at Hokkaido University in Japan.
" Land subsidence is an overlooked problem that almost exists everywhere, " said Manoochehr Shirzaei, a geophysicist at Virginia Tech who has studied subsidence in American coastal cities using similar methods.
Recently though, geophysicists from the University of Texas discovered a super-duper- uber-volcano at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, in theory, capable of turning our entire surface world into one big Pompeii.