{"id":554,"date":"2016-01-03T10:52:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/?p=554"},"modified":"2016-01-03T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T15:03:17","slug":"earthquakes-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/2016\/01\/03\/earthquakes-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes in the News :"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Saturday, January 2nd, 2016 -( -1\u02daC \/ +30\u02daF &amp; Sunny @ 11:11 am here in Atlantic Canada )-<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_555\" style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-555\" class=\"size-full wp-image-555\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2015-Dec-31-VictoriaEarthquake.png?resize=483%2C337\" alt=\"Earthquake map.\" width=\"483\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2015-Dec-31-VictoriaEarthquake.png?w=483&amp;ssl=1 483w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2015-Dec-31-VictoriaEarthquake.png?resize=400%2C280&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Map pin-pointing the epicentre of Wednesday Evening&#8217;s quake.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8212; On Thursday Morning, December 31st,\u00a0 CBC News reported that an Earthquake measured at 4.3 by Canadian Standards &amp; 4.8 or 4.9 by US Geological Survey people, had shaken several people awake in Victoria, British Columbia. The quake was centred just off the coast of Vancouver Island, between islands in that area. They also reported that the quake happened at about 42 kilometers deep underground where plates were moving under one another. The Canadian earthquake measuring people later adjusted their estimate and reported they believed the quake weighed in around 4.7. The US Geological Survey also reported that they believed the epicentre had occurred at more like 52.5 km deep.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_556\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-556\" class=\"size-large wp-image-556\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/USGS-Map-Earthquakes-01-03-2016.png?resize=610%2C410\" alt=\"USGS map.\" width=\"610\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/USGS-Map-Earthquakes-01-03-2016.png?resize=1024%2C688&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/USGS-Map-Earthquakes-01-03-2016.png?resize=549%2C369&amp;ssl=1 549w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/USGS-Map-Earthquakes-01-03-2016.png?resize=768%2C516&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/USGS-Map-Earthquakes-01-03-2016.png?w=1135&amp;ssl=1 1135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This is the USGS map of Earthquakes that measured above 2.5 in the 24 hours leading up to 10:15 am on Sunday, January 3rd, 2016, with the largest quake measuring 5.0 near Fiji out in the Pacific Ocean.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8212; On New Year&#8217;s Day, Friday, There was a four point something quake reported in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Saturday morning, January 2nd, CBC started off reporting a 5.3 quake in Afghanistan and then reported 4.3 quake off the coast of California. Afghanistan had previously reported a 6.3 quake on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; And Nicaragua is back in the news this morning with a 4.5 quake while Attu Station in Alaska had one that measured 4.7 and Fiji felt one that measured 5.0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Oklahoma had a cluster of at least 7 smallish quakes that have been blamed on Hydraulic Fracking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Looks like 2016 is off a start that could be summed up in early Rock And Roll lyrics as &#8220;Shake, Rattle and Roll&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>~~~~~ Jim<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, January 2nd, 2016 -( -1\u02daC \/ +30\u02daF &amp; Sunny @ 11:11 am here in Atlantic Canada )- &#8212; On Thursday Morning, December 31st,\u00a0 CBC News reported that an Earthquake measured at 4.3 by Canadian Standards &amp; 4.8 or 4.9 by US Geological Survey people, had shaken several people awake&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/2016\/01\/03\/earthquakes-in-the-news\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[58,19,20,12,14,46,57,33,50,49,11,16,35,40,22,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frack-off","category-life-should-be-more-fun","category-life-should-be-more-relaxed","category-conspiracies","category-corporate-fascism","category-dont-bend-over-near-a-politician","category-earthquakes","category-nature","category-news","category-newsworthy","category-personal-insight","category-philosophy","category-planned-obsolescence-is-a-crime-in-france","category-politix","category-progress","category-real-life-adventures","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xoJi-8W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}