The word emanate has appeared in 29 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 1 in “New Estimate Finds More Magma Under Yellowstone Supervolcano” by Robin George Andrews:
Volcanologists identify magma reservoirs by monitoring earthquakes. Seismic waves plunge through Earth’s innards before being detected by surface seismometers. They move more slowly through hot and partially molten rock, and scientists use their travel times to interpret how molten parts of the subsurface are.
But this traditional seismic imaging technique is imperfect. Seismic waves sometimes bend around molten pockets. This method also assumes that seismic waves travel in a simplified manner, from the quake directly to the seismometer; in reality, seismic waves emanate in all directions, and critical information about Earth’s underbelly is lost.
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