Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the planetary interior.
Earth’s Crust Is Dripping Under Midwest US, Scientists Discover
Mordor on Earth? Magma from the depths of hell is seeping through a mysterious crack
Somewhere in central Panama, there is an almost unearthly phenomenon of an opening going deep into the mantle. By Elizabeth RayneOriginal article Earth isn’t going to open up its gaping maw, dragonlike, and swallow us all into the inferno anytime soon, but it is exhaling hot breath somewhere under Panama. This obviously sounds like either …
Earth’s core is growing ‘lopsided’ and scientists don’t know why
The core is losing heat faster under Indonesia than it is under Brazil, and that's messing with the seismic waves passing through it.
Circumferential Shortening
It appears from the amount of subduction and upthrust around the world that the Earth's circumference has changed. It's an arcane phenomenon called circumferential shortening.
Radial Shrinkage
It will help to have an idea of the volume of material in the Earth's mantle because it appears that Earth has shrunk since it was first created, a process known as radial shrinkage.