{"id":222468,"date":"2025-09-25T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/this-year-thousands-of-mysterious-earthquakes-hit-santorini-scientists-finally-know-why"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:15:08","slug":"this-year-thousands-of-mysterious-earthquakes-hit-santorini-scientists-finally-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/this-year-thousands-of-mysterious-earthquakes-hit-santorini-scientists-finally-know-why","title":{"rendered":"This year thousands of mysterious earthquakes hit Santorini. Scientists finally know why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E4ONsNy7xoE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The dike\u2019s seemingly unstoppable ascent meant \u201cthere was a possibility that magma would reach the shallow seafloor,\u201d says Isken\u2014which could cause some explosive activity. Fortunately, the dike lost momentum, and the crisis came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Most dike injections fail to cause eruptions, and this one was no different. \u201cThere probably wasn\u2019t enough magma in it, and it wasn\u2019t buoyant enough, to hit the surface,\u201d says Yeo.<\/p>\n<p>While this incursion ended prematurely, others might not. And sketching out other aspects of the plumbing help will help researchers track dangerous magma in real time and warn locals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dike\u2019s seemingly unstoppable ascent meant \u201cthere was a possibility that magma would reach the shallow seafloor,\u201d says Isken\u2014which could cause some explosive activity. Fortunately, the dike lost momentum, and the crisis came to an end. Most dike injections fail to cause eruptions, and this one was no different. \u201cThere probably wasn\u2019t enough magma in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222468","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}