{"id":146965,"date":"2022-09-24T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T20:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-drilled-two-miles-into-the-tectonic-plate-to-understand-japans-great-earthquake"},"modified":"2022-09-24T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T20:23:17","slug":"scientists-drilled-two-miles-into-the-tectonic-plate-to-understand-japans-great-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-drilled-two-miles-into-the-tectonic-plate-to-understand-japans-great-earthquake","title":{"rendered":"Scientists drilled two miles into the tectonic plate to understand Japan\u2019s \u2018great earthquake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-drilled-two-miles-into-the-tectonic-plate-to-understand-japans-great-earthquake2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Washington in the U.S. have discovered links to Japan\u2019s next \u201cgreat earthquake\u201d after drilling deep into the underseas.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that the tectonic stress in Japan\u2019s Nankai subduction zone is less than expected after studying an earthquake fault, <em>Phys.org<\/em> reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the heart of the subduction zone, right above where the fault is locked, where the expectation was that the system should be storing energy between earthquakes,\u201d said Demian Saffer, director of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Washington in the U.S. have discovered links to Japan\u2019s next \u201cgreat earthquake\u201d after drilling deep into the underseas. The researchers found that the tectonic stress in Japan\u2019s Nankai subduction zone is less than expected after studying an earthquake fault, Phys.org reported on Thursday. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146965","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=146965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}