The average density of Earth’s crust $10\ km$ beneath the surface is $2.7\ gm/cm^3$ . The speed of longitudinal seismic waves at that depth is $5.4\ km/s$ . The bulk modulus of Earth’s crust considering its behaviour as fluid at that depth is
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