Inge Lehman's 127th Birthday
http://www.csmonitor.com/
On May 13 in the year 1888, a woman was born who was one of the greatest minds at the time. She was known for her work in geological findings that could of been impossible to find for other. That finding was the inner and the outer core of the Earth. The scientist known as Inge Lehman used a modern day seismometer that was relevant to her time, to detect earthquakes with increasing a accuracy. Into the later 20th century, her work was intrigued by a seismologist named Beno Gutenburg. Gutenburg then calculated the P-waves and S-waves, to figure out of how everything was moving. Such as how the ocean and continents were moving. Relating back to my Environmental Science class, we learned of how, in Geology, there are different layers of the Earth and where we stand on is the Lithosphere. Then going all the way down, deep into the our planet, would be of course, the outer and inner core.
Question for Partner:
To what you learned from the article, what are the benefits to the use of seismometers to know when an earthquake is detected and how can we take that idea further?
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