{"id":177068,"date":"2010-01-13T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2173010"},"modified":"2010-01-13T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:45:00","slug":"the-science-of-a-seismic-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/177068","title":{"rendered":"The science of a seismic storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV align=center><br \/>\n<TABLE id=table1><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><A href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21134540\/vp\/34850305#34850305\" ><IMG border=1 src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/g-tech-100113-quake-science-hmed-1130a.hlarge.jpg\" width=405 height=273><\/A><BR><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma align=\"right\">Damian Dovarganes \/ AP<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<DIV align=left><FONT size=1 face=Verdana align=\"left\"><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21134540\/vp\/34850305#34850305\" >Click for video:<\/A><\/STRONG> Morgan Page, a seismologist at the California <BR>Institute of Technology, shows a map of seismic activity in Haiti. Click <BR>on the image&nbsp;for a&nbsp;video about quake science from NBC Nightly News.<BR><br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P>Several factors came together to make <A href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/34829978\/ns\/world_news-haiti_earthquake\/\">Haiti&#8217;s earthquake<\/A> the most devastating seismic shock to hit&nbsp;the country&nbsp;in two centuries &#8211; ranging from sheer magnitude to sheer poverty. In purely scientific terms, the best comparison was the <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake\">Loma Prieta earthquake<\/A> that shook the Bay Area during the 1989 World Series. But the tragedy in Haiti isn&#8217;t purely scientific.<\/P>&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/01\/13\/2173010.aspx\">read more<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2173010\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Dovarganes \/ AP Click for video: Morgan Page, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology, shows a map of seismic activity in Haiti. Click on the image&nbsp;for a&nbsp;video about quake science from NBC Nightly News. Several factors came together to make Haiti&#8217;s earthquake the most devastating seismic shock to hit&nbsp;the country&nbsp;in two centuries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}