{"id":134093,"date":"2022-01-15T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T20:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/earth-has-a-heartbeat-but-no-one-really-knows-why"},"modified":"2022-01-15T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T20:43:50","slug":"earth-has-a-heartbeat-but-no-one-really-knows-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/earth-has-a-heartbeat-but-no-one-really-knows-why","title":{"rendered":"Earth Has a Heartbeat, but No One Really Knows Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-has-a-heartbeat-but-no-one-really-knows-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how often it goes off.<\/p>\n<p>Just like you, our planet has a ticker that keeps time: Earth\u2019s geological \u201cheartbeat\u201d goes off on a regular schedule, albeit with millions of years in between, says a new study in Geoscience Frontiers.<\/p>\n<p>When scientists from New York University and the Carnegie Institution of Science in Washington D.C. analyzed 260 million years of geological feedback, they found \u201cglobal geologic events are generally correlated,\u201d and seemingly come in pulses every 27.5 million years.<\/p>\n<p>Those events include everything from \u201ctimes of marine and non-marine extinctions, major ocean-anoxic events, continental flood-basalt eruptions, sea-level fluctuations, global pulses of intraplate magmatism, and times of changes in seafloor-spreading rates and plate reorganizations,\u201d the authors write. They considered a total of 89 such major events from the last 260 million years, from which the 27.5 million-year cycle emerged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s how often it goes off. Just like you, our planet has a ticker that keeps time: Earth\u2019s geological \u201cheartbeat\u201d goes off on a regular schedule, albeit with millions of years in between, says a new study in Geoscience Frontiers. When scientists from New York University and the Carnegie Institution of Science in Washington D.C. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134093","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}