{"id":173881,"date":"2023-10-09T22:25:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T03:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-find-the-sounds-beneath-our-feet-are-fingerprints-of-rock-stability"},"modified":"2023-10-09T22:25:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T03:25:20","slug":"scientists-find-the-sounds-beneath-our-feet-are-fingerprints-of-rock-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-find-the-sounds-beneath-our-feet-are-fingerprints-of-rock-stability","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find the sounds beneath our feet are fingerprints of rock stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-the-sounds-beneath-our-feet-are-fingerprints-of-rock-stability2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you could sink through the Earth\u2019s crust, you might hear, with a carefully tuned ear, a cacophany of booms and crackles along the way. The fissures, pores, and defects running through rocks are like strings that resonate when pressed and stressed. And as a team of MIT geologists has found, the rhythm and pace of these sounds can tell you something about the depth and strength of the rocks around you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you were listening to the rocks, they would be singing at higher and higher pitches, the deeper you go,\u201d says MIT geologist Mat\u011bj Pe\u010d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you could sink through the Earth\u2019s crust, you might hear, with a carefully tuned ear, a cacophany of booms and crackles along the way. The fissures, pores, and defects running through rocks are like strings that resonate when pressed and stressed. And as a team of MIT geologists has found, the rhythm and pace [\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-173881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173881","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=173881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}