{"id":90401,"date":"2019-05-07T15:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T22:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/this-peeling-tectonic-plate-could-cause-catastrophic-earthquakes"},"modified":"2019-05-07T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T22:42:41","slug":"this-peeling-tectonic-plate-could-cause-catastrophic-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/this-peeling-tectonic-plate-could-cause-catastrophic-earthquakes","title":{"rendered":"This \u201cPeeling\u201d Tectonic Plate Could Cause Catastrophic Earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-peeling-tectonic-plate-could-cause-catastrophic-earthquakes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The edge of a tectonic plate, one of the massive shelves of crust that carry the continents and ocean\u2019s floor, is splitting right down the middle.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists started to study the plate, located off the coast of Portugal, after it caused an unexpected earthquake and tsunami in 1969. They now suspect that they\u2019re witnessing the birth of a new subduction zone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2019\/05\/tectonic-plate-peeled-apart-could-shrink-atlantic-ocean-geology\/\">according to <em>National Geographic<\/em><\/a>, which is the point at which two plates collide and grind against each other, causing powerful earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/peeling-tectonic-plate-earthquakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The edge of a tectonic plate, one of the massive shelves of crust that carry the continents and ocean\u2019s floor, is splitting right down the middle. Scientists started to study the plate, located off the coast of Portugal, after it caused an unexpected earthquake and tsunami in 1969. They now suspect that they\u2019re witnessing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90401","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}