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Around 90% of an Earthquake’s Energy Doesn’t Do What You Think It Does

Around 90% of an Earthquake’s Energy Doesn’t Do What You Think It Does
science9/16/2025

A miniature quake-in-a-lab enabled scientists to quantify an earthquake’s energy dynamics for the first time.

Earthquakes can be deadly and disastrous. But what we feel may constitute a tiny sliver of an earthquake’s destructive energy, according to a new experiment. In a recent AGU Advances paper, researchers describe how they created “lab quakes,” or minia... [2830 chars]