{"id":543606,"date":"2010-04-26T16:56:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T20:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=14589"},"modified":"2010-04-26T16:56:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T20:56:40","slug":"i-am-apparently-more-accurate-than-an-iranian-cleric-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543606","title":{"rendered":"I am, apparently, more accurate than an Iranian cleric | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted by me <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/04\/26\/tremble-before-boobquake\/\">in my post<\/a> earlier today, a pair (ha!) of magnitude 5+ earthquakes hit off the Sandwich Islands (ha?) today. One happened at <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/recenteqsww\/Quakes\/us2010vna2.php\">08:46:32 UTC<\/a> (before I posted, but I didn&#8217;t know at the time) and another, slightly stronger, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/recenteqsww\/Quakes\/us2010vnbt.php\">at 17:04:50 UT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/04\/sandwichisle_quakes.jpg\" alt=\"sandwichisle_quakes\" title=\"sandwichisle_quakes\" width=\"610\" height=\"465\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14590\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There was a bigger one &#8212; magnitude 6.5 &#8212; off the coast of Taiwan, but that was much earlier today, actually yesterday evening US time, so I don&#8217;t count that one. But who knows? <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/recenteqsww\/Quakes\/quakes_big.php\">The day&#8217;s not over yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IFU5x1rSCIVIHyIn-aGgy8TIk0M\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IFU5x1rSCIVIHyIn-aGgy8TIk0M\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IFU5x1rSCIVIHyIn-aGgy8TIk0M\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IFU5x1rSCIVIHyIn-aGgy8TIk0M\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/uoGukJaarv4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/L5JZGEStxMw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted by me in my post earlier today, a pair (ha!) of magnitude 5+ earthquakes hit off the Sandwich Islands (ha?) today. One happened at 08:46:32 UTC (before I posted, but I didn&#8217;t know at the time) and another, slightly stronger, at 17:04:50 UT. There was a bigger one &#8212; magnitude 6.5 &#8212; off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543606","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\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}