{"id":767791,"date":"2023-10-04T10:52:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T14:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767791"},"modified":"2023-10-04T10:52:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T14:52:21","slug":"discovery-of-massive-undersea-water-reservoir-could-explain-new-zealands-mysterious-slow-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767791","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of massive undersea water reservoir could explain New Zealand&#039;s mysterious slow earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers working to image New Zealand&#8217;s Hikurangi earthquake fault have uncovered a sea&#8217;s worth of water buried in the Earth&#8217;s crust.\u00a0The water was carried down by eroding volcanic rocks and is believed to be dampening the earthquake fault, allowing it to release most of the pent-up tectonic stress through\u00a0harmless slow slip earthquakes.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2023\/10\/231004105221.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Discovery of massive undersea water reservoir could explain New Zealand&#8217;s mysterious slow earthquakes<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers working to image New Zealand&#8217;s Hikurangi earthquake fault have uncovered a sea&#8217;s worth of water buried in the Earth&#8217;s crust.\u00a0The water was carried down by eroding volcanic rocks and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}