{"id":223708,"date":"2025-10-21T04:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/decades-old-earthquake-mystery-finally-solved-by-new-model"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:20:01","slug":"decades-old-earthquake-mystery-finally-solved-by-new-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/decades-old-earthquake-mystery-finally-solved-by-new-model","title":{"rendered":"Decades-Old Earthquake Mystery Finally Solved by New Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/decades-old-earthquake-mystery-finally-solved-by-new-model.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new laboratory earthquake model connects real contact area with earthquake dynamics, paving the way for improved prediction and early warning systems. Scientists have created a new laboratory model that links the tiny, real contact areas between fault surfaces to the likelihood of earthquakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new laboratory earthquake model connects real contact area with earthquake dynamics, paving the way for improved prediction and early warning systems. Scientists have created a new laboratory model that links the tiny, real contact areas between fault surfaces to the likelihood of earthquakes.<\/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-223708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223708","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=223708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}