{"id":220397,"date":"2025-08-19T04:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/discovery-of-hidden-faults-sheds-light-on-mystery-of-slow-earthquakes"},"modified":"2025-08-19T04:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:31:19","slug":"discovery-of-hidden-faults-sheds-light-on-mystery-of-slow-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/discovery-of-hidden-faults-sheds-light-on-mystery-of-slow-earthquakes","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of hidden faults sheds light on mystery of \u2018slow earthquakes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-of-hidden-faults-sheds-light-on-mystery-of-slow-earthquakes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have uncovered a key piece of the puzzle behind the unusual \u201cslow earthquakes\u201d occurring off the east coast of New Zealand\u2019s North Island.<\/p>\n<p>A new international study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adu4227\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, identifies hidden fault structures called polygonal fault systems (PFSs) as a major influence on the behavior of the northern Hikurangi subduction zone.<\/p>\n<p>These shallow geological features, found in sediments entering the subduction zone, appear to play a critical role in where and how slow slip earthquakes occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have uncovered a key piece of the puzzle behind the unusual \u201cslow earthquakes\u201d occurring off the east coast of New Zealand\u2019s North Island. A new international study, published in Science Advances, identifies hidden fault structures called polygonal fault systems (PFSs) as a major influence on the behavior of the northern Hikurangi subduction zone. These [\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-220397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220397","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=220397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}