{"id":99047,"date":"2019-11-26T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-mathematician-says-hes-found-a-system-that-could-stop-tsunamis-in-their-tracks"},"modified":"2019-11-26T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:46:17","slug":"a-mathematician-says-hes-found-a-system-that-could-stop-tsunamis-in-their-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-mathematician-says-hes-found-a-system-that-could-stop-tsunamis-in-their-tracks","title":{"rendered":"A Mathematician Says He\u2019s Found a System That Could Stop Tsunamis in Their Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mathematician-says-hes-found-a-system-that-could-stop-tsunamis-in-their-tracks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yay <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The pressure of deep-ocean sound waves could be used to stop tsunamis in their tracks, researchers have found, by dissipating their energy across wider areas and reducing the height and speed of these monster waves before they reach land.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsunami\">Tsunamis<\/a> \u2014 which can be caused by earthquakes, landslides, or any sudden release of energy underwater \u2014 are capable of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/forget-the-san-andreas-movie-scientists-say-california-faces-a-real-tsunami-risk\">devastating coastal regions<\/a> when they hit land, and right now, there\u2019s not much we can do to stop them.<\/p>\n<p>But mathematician Usama Kadri from the University of Cardiff in the UK thinks <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2015\/acoustic-gravity-waves-transport-tsunamis-0203\">acoustic-gravity waves<\/a> (AGWs) could be the solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay face_with_colon_three The pressure of deep-ocean sound waves could be used to stop tsunamis in their tracks, researchers have found, by dissipating their energy across wider areas and reducing the height and speed of these monster waves before they reach land. Tsunamis \u2014 which can be caused by earthquakes, landslides, or any sudden release of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99047","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=99047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}