{"id":229382,"date":"2026-01-20T01:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/what-deep-sea-mud-is-revealing-about-giant-earthquakes-along-the-pacific-coast"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:43:11","slug":"what-deep-sea-mud-is-revealing-about-giant-earthquakes-along-the-pacific-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/what-deep-sea-mud-is-revealing-about-giant-earthquakes-along-the-pacific-coast","title":{"rendered":"What deep sea mud is revealing about giant earthquakes along the Pacific Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-deep-sea-mud-is-revealing-about-giant-earthquakes-along-the-pacific-coast.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often used as a historical record for reconstructing earthquake histories.<\/p>\n<p>However, they can be unreliable because it is difficult to show they were not triggered by a storm or flood rather than a quake. In a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adx6028\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, researchers detail a new way to link these mud layers to the specific landslides that caused them. This could mean much more accurate earthquake timelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often used as a historical record for reconstructing earthquake histories. However, they can be unreliable because it is difficult to show they were not triggered by a storm or flood rather than a quake. In [\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-229382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229382","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=229382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}