- A group of scientists from the Princeton University in the U.S. and the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics in China have discovered massive mountains in the Earth’s mantle that lies 410 miles (660 Km.) beneath the Earth’s surface that’s taller than Everest.
- It is located in the layer that separates the upper and lower mantle.
- As per the study published in the Journal Science, scientists used data from a 8.2 magnitude earthquake in Bolivia, mountains and other topography were discovered on the base of the boundary. The earthquake was the second-largest deep earthquake ever recorded and took place in 1994.
- The scientists have called this mountain as ‘the 660-km boundary.’
- According to the scientists, the most powerful waves on the planet come from giant earthquakes with the magnitude of 7.0 or higher, that can generate shock waves which travel through the Earth’s core to the other side of the planet in all directions and back again.
- The data from the shock waves allow data scientists to study deep into the Earth by modelling wave data on the kind of topography that could have caused it to scatter in such a way.
