{"id":211318,"date":"2025-04-13T14:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T19:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-stunned-after-discovering-earths-heartbeat-that-sounds-every-26-seconds"},"modified":"2025-04-13T14:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T19:12:56","slug":"scientists-stunned-after-discovering-earths-heartbeat-that-sounds-every-26-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-stunned-after-discovering-earths-heartbeat-that-sounds-every-26-seconds","title":{"rendered":"Scientists stunned after discovering Earth\u2019s \u2018heartbeat\u2019 that sounds every 26 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-stunned-after-discovering-earths-heartbeat-that-sounds-every-26-seconds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have detected a rhythmic \u2018heartbeat\u2019 occurring in the centre of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not big enough to be felt like an <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/science\/news\/terrifying-underwater-earthquake-footage-082574-20240105\">earthquake<\/a>, but it\u2019s noticeable enough for seismologists around the world to pick up a tiny, measurable \u2018blip\u2019 on their radars. Referred to as a \u2018microseism\u2019 by geologists, the pulse was first observed coming from the ocean and occurs roughly every 26 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been quietly pulsing for decades, but <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/science\">scientists<\/a> aren\u2019t entirely sure what\u2019s causing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have detected a rhythmic \u2018heartbeat\u2019 occurring in the centre of the Earth. It\u2019s not big enough to be felt like an earthquake, but it\u2019s noticeable enough for seismologists around the world to pick up a tiny, measurable \u2018blip\u2019 on their radars. Referred to as a \u2018microseism\u2019 by geologists, the pulse was first observed coming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211318","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}