{"id":63785,"date":"2026-05-12T02:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/63785\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:33:07","slug":"researchers-trigger-controlled-quakes-under-swiss-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/63785\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers trigger &#8216;controlled&#8217; quakes under Swiss Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bedretto, Switzerland \u2013 Researchers have made the ground shake in southern Switzerland, triggering thousands of tiny earthquakes in a monitored setting, as they seek to discover seismicity insights that could reduce risks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a success!&#8221; said Domenico Giardini, one of the lead researchers on the project, as he inspected a crack in the rock wall lining a narrow tunnel far below the Swiss Alps.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing a fluorescent orange jumpsuit and helmet, a\u00a0geology professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich\u00a0switched on his headlight to get a better look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bedretto, Switzerland \u2013 Researchers have made the ground shake in southern Switzerland, triggering thousands of tiny earthquakes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,26148,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-63785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-earthquakes","10":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116559269364824405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}