{"id":9624,"date":"2011-08-24T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9624"},"modified":"2011-08-24T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T08:00:22","slug":"earthquaaaake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9624","title":{"rendered":"Earthquaaaake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were hit with an earthquake (earlier today as I write this, yesterday as this is posted); preliminary reports had it at a 5.8 with the epicenter about 85 miles away from DC.  I was at work and it took a second to realize it wasn&#8217;t someone rolling a heavy cart down the hallway.  I was all &#8220;What the?&#8221; (as I moved to stand in the doorframe of my office) because earthquakes aren&#8217;t all that common in this area.  But I&#8217;ve been through the experience a few times before.<\/p>\n<p>I came home to find that entropy had increased in my abode from the shakin&#8217; and bakin&#8217;.  Most of the top row of CDs (Beatles through Dire Straits) had fallen, and many things on another set of shelves had tipped over or made it to the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2011\/08\/quake2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2011\/08\/quake2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"347\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9625\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/08\/quake2.jpg 576w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/08\/quake2-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2011\/08\/quake1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2011\/08\/quake1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9626\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/08\/quake1.jpg 576w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/08\/quake1-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/08\/23\/virginia-earthquake-waves-ripple-across-the-us\/\">Virginia earthquake waves ripple across the US!<\/a> from the Bad Astronomer<\/p>\n<p>Looks like I will be busy fulfilling my duties as a member of an American chapter of the Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1f-kfRREA8M?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1f-kfRREA8M?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were hit with an earthquake (earlier today as I write this, yesterday as this is posted); preliminary reports had it at a 5.8 with the epicenter about 85 miles away from DC. I was at work and it took &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-tmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}