{"id":85779,"date":"2018-12-13T04:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T12:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/fireball-that-exploded-over-greenland-shook-earth-triggering-seismic-sensors"},"modified":"2018-12-13T04:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T12:22:22","slug":"fireball-that-exploded-over-greenland-shook-earth-triggering-seismic-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/fireball-that-exploded-over-greenland-shook-earth-triggering-seismic-sensors","title":{"rendered":"Fireball That Exploded Over Greenland Shook Earth, Triggering Seismic Sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fireball-that-exploded-over-greenland-shook-earth-triggering-seismic-sensors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 When a blazing fireball from space exploded over Earth on July 25, scientists captured the first-ever seismic recordings of a meteor impact on ice in Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 8 p.m. local time on that day, residents of the town of Qaanaaq on Greenland\u2019s northwestern coast reported seeing a bright light in the sky and feeling the ground shake as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/63288-meteor-fireball-greenland-air-base.html\">a meteor combusted over<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/63288-meteor-fireball-greenland-air-base.html\">the nearby Thule Air Base<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the fleeting event was detected by more than just human observers, according to unpublished research presented Dec. 12 here at the annual conference of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64291-greenland-fireball-seismic-recordings.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64291-greenland-fireball-seismic-recordings.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 When a blazing fireball from space exploded over Earth on July 25, scientists captured the first-ever seismic recordings of a meteor impact on ice in Greenland. At approximately 8 p.m. local time on that day, residents of the town of Qaanaaq on Greenland\u2019s northwestern coast reported seeing a bright light in the sky [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85779","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}