{"id":111163,"date":"2020-08-12T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/weird-boomerang-earthquake-detected-under-the-atlantic-ocean"},"modified":"2020-08-12T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:25:53","slug":"weird-boomerang-earthquake-detected-under-the-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/weird-boomerang-earthquake-detected-under-the-atlantic-ocean","title":{"rendered":"Weird \u2018boomerang\u2019 earthquake detected under the Atlantic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weird-boomerang-earthquake-detected-under-the-atlantic-ocean.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This magnitude 7.1 earthquake started deep underground, in a gash on the Atlantic <a>seafloor, a little more than<\/a> 650 miles off the coast of Liberia, in western Africa. It rushed eastward and upward, then did an about-face and boomeranged back along the upper section of the fault at incredible speeds\u2011so fast it caused the geologic version of a sonic boom.<\/p>\n<p>The ferocity of shaking from an earthquake is usually focused in the direction the temblor is traveling. But a boomerang quake, or a \u201cback-propagating rupture\u201d in scientific terms<b>, <\/b>may spread the intense shaking across a wider zone. It remains uncertain how common boomerang earthquakes are\u2014and how many travel at such great speeds. But the new study, published today in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-020-0619-9\">journal <i>Nature Geoscience,<\/i><\/a> is a major step toward untangling the complex physics behind these events and understanding their potential hazards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudies like this help us understand how past earthquakes ruptured, how future earthquakes may rupture, and how that relates to the potential impact for faults near populated areas,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/kaseyaderhold.com\/cv\/\">Kasey Aderhold<\/a>, a seismologist with the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, via email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This magnitude 7.1 earthquake started deep underground, in a gash on the Atlantic seafloor, a little more than 650 miles off the coast of Liberia, in western Africa. It rushed eastward and upward, then did an about-face and boomeranged back along the upper section of the fault at incredible speeds\u2011so fast it caused the geologic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111163","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=111163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}