{"id":8918,"date":"2018-01-03T00:29:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T07:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8918"},"modified":"2018-01-02T17:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T00:33:22","slug":"earth-slows-down-earth-quakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/03\/earth-slows-down-earth-quakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Slows Down, Earth Quakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/science\/powerful-earthquakes-ravage-earth-2018-11785189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Mirror<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"section-theme-background-indicator publication-font\">Powerful earthquakes to ravage Earth in 2018 as planet&#8217;s rotation temporarily slows<\/h1>\n<p>Experts believe there is a correlation between the slowing of the Earth&#8217;s rotation and more powerful earthquakes<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"author-label\">By\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"publication-theme\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/authors\/jeff-parsons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-method-continue=\"data-method-continue\" data-reset-responsive-cookie=\"true\">Jeff Parsons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K2C9tqpeItY\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The world is entering a period of higher seismic activity this year that will bring more earthquakes with it, scientists have predicted.<\/p>\n<p>While that&#8217;s undoubtedly bad news for those living within affected areas, the ability to accurately predict when and where earthquakes will occur is growing all the time.<\/p>\n<p>This prediction comes from the fact that the Earth is currently experiencing a periodic slowdown of its rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, these slowdowns have coincided with peak times for earthquakes and seismic activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far we have only had about six severe earthquakes [in 2017]. We could easily have 20-a-year starting in 2018,\u201d said Dr Roger Bilham from the University of Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/science\/powerful-earthquakes-ravage-earth-2018-11785189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Mirror<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Mirror Powerful earthquakes to ravage Earth in 2018 as planet&#8217;s rotation temporarily slows Experts believe there is a correlation between the slowing of the Earth&#8217;s rotation and more powerful earthquakes By\u00a0Jeff Parsons The world is entering a period of higher seismic activity this year that will bring more earthquakes with it, scientists have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}