{"id":158713,"date":"2023-02-22T02:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/bouncing-seismic-waves-reveal-distinct-layer-in-earths-inner-core"},"modified":"2023-02-22T02:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:24:19","slug":"bouncing-seismic-waves-reveal-distinct-layer-in-earths-inner-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/bouncing-seismic-waves-reveal-distinct-layer-in-earths-inner-core","title":{"rendered":"Bouncing seismic waves reveal distinct layer in Earth\u2019s inner core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bouncing-seismic-waves-reveal-distinct-layer-in-earths-inner-core.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data captured from seismic waves caused by earthquakes has shed new light on the deepest parts of Earth\u2019s inner core, according to seismologists from The Australian National University (ANU).<\/p>\n<p>By measuring the different speeds at which these waves penetrate and pass through the Earth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/inner+core\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">inner core<\/a>, the researchers believe they\u2019ve documented evidence of a distinct layer inside Earth known as the innermost inner core\u2014a solid \u201cmetallic ball\u201d that sits within the center of the inner core.<\/p>\n<p>Not long ago it was thought Earth\u2019s structure was comprised of four distinct layers: the crust, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core. The findings, published in <i><i>Nature Communications<\/i>,<\/i> confirm there is a fifth layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data captured from seismic waves caused by earthquakes has shed new light on the deepest parts of Earth\u2019s inner core, according to seismologists from The Australian National University (ANU). By measuring the different speeds at which these waves penetrate and pass through the Earth\u2019s inner core, the researchers believe they\u2019ve documented evidence of a distinct [\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-158713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158713","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=158713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}