{"id":157983,"date":"2023-02-14T12:29:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/earths-newly-discovered-layer-could-help-scientists-predict-earthquakes"},"modified":"2023-02-14T12:29:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T18:29:29","slug":"earths-newly-discovered-layer-could-help-scientists-predict-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/earths-newly-discovered-layer-could-help-scientists-predict-earthquakes","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s newly discovered layer could help scientists predict earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-newly-discovered-layer-could-help-scientists-predict-earthquakes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 A newly confirmed layer of the Earth could give scientists a better understanding of plate tectonics and could help them better predict earthquakes, according to research published by the University of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-022-01116-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published in the scientific journal Nature Geosciences<\/a>, was led by Junlin Hua, a post-doctoral student at UT Austin. Hua began his research while attending Brown University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarthquakes (are) directly the cause of plate tectonics,\u201d Hua said. Plate tectonics is the movement of the plates that make up the Earth\u2019s crust. \u201cIt\u2019s just kind of like a boat, like traveling on water.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 A newly confirmed layer of the Earth could give scientists a better understanding of plate tectonics and could help them better predict earthquakes, according to research published by the University of Texas. The work, published in the scientific journal Nature Geosciences, was led by Junlin Hua, a post-doctoral student at UT Austin. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157983","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}