{"id":229134,"date":"2026-01-16T01:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/tiny-earthquakes-reveal-hidden-faults-under-northern-california"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:30:17","slug":"tiny-earthquakes-reveal-hidden-faults-under-northern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/tiny-earthquakes-reveal-hidden-faults-under-northern-california","title":{"rendered":"Tiny earthquakes reveal hidden faults under Northern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-earthquakes-reveal-hidden-faults-under-northern-california2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The work, by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of California, Davis and the University of Colorado Boulder, is <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aeb2407\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t understand the underlying tectonic processes, it\u2019s hard to predict the seismic hazard,\u201d said co-author Amanda Thomas, professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work, by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of California, Davis and the University of Colorado Boulder, is published in Science. \u201cIf we don\u2019t understand the underlying tectonic processes, it\u2019s hard to predict the seismic hazard,\u201d said co-author Amanda Thomas, professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Davis.<\/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-229134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229134","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=229134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}