{"id":73913,"date":"2017-11-22T01:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T09:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/the-real-science-behind-the-unreal-predictions-of-major-earthquakes-in-2018"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:02:37","slug":"the-real-science-behind-the-unreal-predictions-of-major-earthquakes-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/the-real-science-behind-the-unreal-predictions-of-major-earthquakes-in-2018","title":{"rendered":"The real science behind the unreal predictions of major earthquakes in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-real-science-behind-the-unreal-predictions-of-major-earthquakes-in-2018.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research got a lot of attention after Bilham presented it at the October meeting of the Geological Society of America. Several critics noted that correlation is not causation \u2014 earthquake clusters and fluctuations of Earth\u2019s rotation might happen on the same time scales, but that doesn\u2019t mean they are linked.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There\u2019s a curious connection between earthquakes and the Earth\u2019s rotation. But that doesn\u2019t mean the planet is in for a major shaking next year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2017\/11\/21\/the-real-science-behind-the-unreal-predictions-of-major-earthquakes-in-2018\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2...s-in-2018\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research got a lot of attention after Bilham presented it at the October meeting of the Geological Society of America. Several critics noted that correlation is not causation \u2014 earthquake clusters and fluctuations of Earth\u2019s rotation might happen on the same time scales, but that doesn\u2019t mean they are linked. There\u2019s a curious connection [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73913","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74121,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73913\/revisions\/74121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}