{"id":231538,"date":"2026-02-17T18:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/vanishing-lakes-in-tibet-may-have-triggered-earthquakes-by-awakening-faults-in-earths-crust"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:04:55","slug":"vanishing-lakes-in-tibet-may-have-triggered-earthquakes-by-awakening-faults-in-earths-crust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/vanishing-lakes-in-tibet-may-have-triggered-earthquakes-by-awakening-faults-in-earths-crust","title":{"rendered":"Vanishing lakes in Tibet may have triggered earthquakes by awakening faults in Earth\u2019s crust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vanishing-lakes-in-tibet-may-have-triggered-earthquakes-by-awakening-faults-in-earths-crust2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile climate change does not \u2018cause\u2019 tectonics, it can modulate the stress conditions in the crust,\u201d Fox said. \u201cThat\u2019s something we need to factor into future hazard assessments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile climate change does not \u2018cause\u2019 tectonics, it can modulate the stress conditions in the crust,\u201d Fox said. \u201cThat\u2019s something we need to factor into future hazard assessments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231538","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=231538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}