{"id":1132,"date":"2009-05-19T17:07:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T00:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2009-05-19T17:07:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T00:07:31","slug":"earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2009\/05\/19\/earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, our supper was rudely interrupted by a <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/recenteqsww\/Quakes\/ci10410337.php\">4.7 magnitude earthquake<\/a>. Epicentre was Lennox, about 5 miles away from where I live.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, I was startled to be in another earthquake, albeit a tiny <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/dyfi\/events\/ci\/10411545\/us\/index.html\">4.1 magnitude scale<\/a>&#8230; Though, I actually felt the <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/dyfi\/events\/ci\/10411553\/us\/index.html\">aftershock<\/a>, this time, too.<\/p>\n<p>The USGS has some pretty quick updates on earthquakes; and\u00a0not just in California but the rest of the world. Speaking of USGS, they have a truck camped\/stationed in the park on 19oth and Hawthorne. The truck&#8217;s been there for at least 2 weeks now&#8230; I wonder what they&#8217;re researching over there. Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, more earthquake tidbits, courtesy of the USGS website:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The May 19, 1940 earthquake in southern California, magnitude 7.1, caused a horizontal land movement that displaced the international boundary, between the United States and Mexico, a few feet.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to hoping I never experience a 7.1 magnitude quake in my lifetime! &gt;_&lt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, our supper was rudely interrupted by a 4.7 magnitude earthquake. Epicentre was Lennox, about 5 miles away from where I live.<br \/>\nThis afternoon, I was startled to be in another earthquake, albeit a tiny 4.1 magnitude scale&#8230; Though, I actually felt the aftershock, this time, too.<br \/>\nThe USGS has some pretty quick updates on earthquakes;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2009\/05\/19\/earthquakes\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}