Portal:Geophysics/Did you know/4


 * ... that most of the Central African Republic is covered by the Bangui Magnetic Anomaly (pictured as large red anomaly in central Africa), the result of an igneous intrusion or meteorite impact?
 * ... that 47 terrawatts of heat emerges from the interior of the Earth compared to 173,000 terrawatts received from the sun?
 * ... that geophysical methods have been used to look for the palace of Cleopatra?
 * ... that the Wairau, Awatere, Clarence and Hope faults, are the main active faults of the Marlborough Fault System, and carry most of the displacement on the Australian-Pacific plate boundary in northern South Island?
 * ... that a geomagnetic storm in 1882 resulted in unusual phenomena reported in various parts of the world as an "auroral beam", a "blood red" sky, and a "luminous mass, shaped somewhat like a torpedo"?