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Earth’s core is growing ‘lopsided’ and scientists don’t know why

Exploded view of the innder layers of the Earth

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The core is losing heat faster under Indonesia than it is under Brazil, and that’s messing with the seismic waves passing through it.

There’s a mystery brewing at the center of the Earth. Scientists can only see it when they study the seismic waves (subterranean tremors generated by earthquakes) passing through the planet’s solid iron inner core.

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