{"id":105411,"date":"2020-04-15T07:43:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/timing-of-earths-biggest-earthquakes-follows-a-devils-staircase-pattern"},"modified":"2020-04-15T07:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:43:56","slug":"timing-of-earths-biggest-earthquakes-follows-a-devils-staircase-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/timing-of-earths-biggest-earthquakes-follows-a-devils-staircase-pattern","title":{"rendered":"Timing of Earth\u2019s biggest earthquakes follows a \u2018devil\u2019s staircase\u2019 pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/timing-of-earths-biggest-earthquakes-follows-a-devils-staircase-pattern.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The devil staircase findings.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>April 14 (UPI) \u2014 The timing of large, shallow earthquakes across the globe follows a mathematical pattern known as the devil\u2019s staircase, according to a new study of seismic sequences.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, scientists and their models have theorized that earthquake sequences happen periodically or quasi-periodically, following cycles of growing tension and release. Researchers call it the elastic rebound model. In reality, periodic earthquake sequences are surprisingly rare.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, scientists found global earthquake sequences tend to occur in clusters \u2014 outbursts of seismic events separated by long but irregular intervals of silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The devil staircase findings. April 14 (UPI) \u2014 The timing of large, shallow earthquakes across the globe follows a mathematical pattern known as the devil\u2019s staircase, according to a new study of seismic sequences. Previously, scientists and their models have theorized that earthquake sequences happen periodically or quasi-periodically, following cycles of growing tension and release. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}