{"id":158266,"date":"2023-02-16T16:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/slow-motion-scientists-investigate-tectonic-plate-boundary-earthquake-behavior"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:27:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:27:54","slug":"slow-motion-scientists-investigate-tectonic-plate-boundary-earthquake-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/slow-motion-scientists-investigate-tectonic-plate-boundary-earthquake-behavior","title":{"rendered":"Slow motion: Scientists investigate tectonic plate boundary earthquake behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/slow-motion-scientists-investigate-tectonic-plate-boundary-earthquake-behavior.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci demonstrated frictional forces slow down the motion of surfaces in contact. Friction, he determined, is proportional to normal force. When two objects are pressed together twice as hard, friction doubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see this principle with tectonic plate boundaries,\u201d says Utah State University geophysicist Srisharan Shreedharan. \u201cAs surfaces slide against each other, we observe frictional properties, including frictional healing that describes the degree of fault restrengthening between earthquakes. However, we know little about how this phenomenon may affect future slip events, including earthquakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He and colleagues Demian Saffer and Laura Wallace of the University of Texas at Austin, where Shreedharan was previously employed as a postdoctoral fellow, and Charles Williams of New Zealand\u2019s GNS <i>Science<\/i> geoscience research institute, publish findings about ultralow frictional healing and slow slip events along the Hikurangi <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tectonic+plate+boundary\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tectonic plate boundary<\/a> in the Feb. 17, 2023, issue of the journal Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci demonstrated frictional forces slow down the motion of surfaces in contact. Friction, he determined, is proportional to normal force. When two objects are pressed together twice as hard, friction doubles. \u201cWe see this principle with tectonic plate boundaries,\u201d says Utah State University geophysicist Srisharan Shreedharan. \u201cAs surfaces slide against each [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158266","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}