{"id":140597,"date":"2022-06-14T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/earths-core-is-moving-under-our-feet-switching-direction-every-6-years-scientists-say"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:24:24","slug":"earths-core-is-moving-under-our-feet-switching-direction-every-6-years-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/earths-core-is-moving-under-our-feet-switching-direction-every-6-years-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s Core Is \u2018Moving Under Our Feet,\u2019 Switching Direction Every 6 Years, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-core-is-moving-under-our-feet-switching-direction-every-6-years-scientists-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear explosions helped scientists triangulate the rate and extent of the oscillation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have long postulated that Earth\u2019s core doesn\u2019t just spin\u2014it spins faster than the surface does. But in new research published last week in Science Advances, a pair of experts from the University of Southern California (USC) say the core travels more slowly than the outer surface of Earth, and even changes directions about every six years. This movement pattern indicates that Earth\u2019s core actually oscillates, turning decades of science on its head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inner core is not fixed\u2014it\u2019s moving under our feet, and it seems to going back and forth a couple of kilometers every six years,\u201d John Vidale, a USC earthquake researcher involved in the new work, explains in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear explosions helped scientists triangulate the rate and extent of the oscillation. Scientists have long postulated that Earth\u2019s core doesn\u2019t just spin\u2014it spins faster than the surface does. But in new research published last week in Science Advances, a pair of experts from the University of Southern California (USC) say the core travels more slowly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140597","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}