Far below the surface of the Indian Ocean lies one of the most striking irregularities in Earth’s gravity field, a broad region where the planet’s pull is measurably weaker than average. Popularly ...

For decades, scientists have known that a vast region of the Indian Ocean exerts a weaker-than-expected gravitational pull, creating what researchers call the Indian Ocean Geoid Low. This anomaly, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Indian Ocean Geoid Low spans 1.2 million square miles where a deep gravity anomaly causes the sea surface to sink by as much ...