{"id":107429,"date":"2020-05-21T21:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/giant-tectonic-plate-under-indian-ocean-is-breaking-in-two"},"modified":"2020-05-21T21:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:05:20","slug":"giant-tectonic-plate-under-indian-ocean-is-breaking-in-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/giant-tectonic-plate-under-indian-ocean-is-breaking-in-two","title":{"rendered":"Giant tectonic plate under Indian Ocean is breaking in two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-tectonic-plate-under-indian-ocean-is-breaking-in-two2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The giant tectonic plate under the Indian Ocean is going through a rocky breakup \u2026 with itself.<\/p>\n<p>In a short time (geologically speaking) this plate will split in two, a new study finds.<\/p>\n<p>To humans, however, this breakup will take an eternity. The plate, known as the India-Australia-Capricorn tectonic plate, is splitting at a snail\u2019s pace \u2014 about 0.06 inches (1.7 millimeters) a year. Put another way, in 1 million years, the plate\u2019s two pieces will be about 1 mile (1.7 kilometers) farther apart than they are now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The giant tectonic plate under the Indian Ocean is going through a rocky breakup \u2026 with itself. In a short time (geologically speaking) this plate will split in two, a new study finds. To humans, however, this breakup will take an eternity. The plate, known as the India-Australia-Capricorn tectonic plate, is splitting at a snail\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107429","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}