{"id":15764,"date":"2013-02-05T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=15764"},"modified":"2013-02-05T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T02:38:10","slug":"santa-cruz-solomon-island-earthquake-and-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/santa-cruz-solomon-island-earthquake-and-tsunami\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz, Solomon Island Earthquake and Tsunami UPDATE: several villages destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an 8.0 magnitude earthquake a few minutes ago in the vicinity of Santa Cruz Islands, in the South Pacific, and it is now confirmed that this generated a potentially severe tsunami that by now would have hit nearby islands.  But, no one has reports from the scene to confirm or elaborate on this. That is a very large earthquake, and apparently shallow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsunami.gov\/product.php?id=TSUPAC.20130206.0212.003\">Info here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of special note, in all caps, because that&#8217;s how meteorologists roll:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.tsunami.gov\/product.php?id=TSUPAC.2013<\/p>\n<p>SEA LEVEL READINGS INDICATE A TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED. IT MAY HAVE<br \/>\n BEEN DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS NEAR THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER AND<br \/>\n COULD ALSO BE A THREAT TO MORE DISTANT COASTS. AUTHORITIES SHOULD<br \/>\n TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THIS POSSIBILITY. THIS<br \/>\n CENTER WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR SEA LEVEL DATA TO DETERMINE THE<br \/>\n EXTENT AND SEVERITY OF THE THREAT<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE<\/p>\n<p><iframe src =\"http:\/\/video.news.com.au\/embed\/2332457872\/Tsunami-hits-Soloman-Islands?player=narrow\" width=\"330\" height=\"365\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><a href=\"http:\/\/video.news.com.au\/2332457872\/Tsunami-hits-Soloman-Islands\">VIDEO: Tsunami hits Soloman Islands<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not much info yet, but I&#8217;m sure there will be plenty of info tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an 8.0 magnitude earthquake a few minutes ago in the vicinity of Santa Cruz Islands, in the South Pacific, and it is now confirmed that this generated a potentially severe tsunami that by now would have hit nearby islands. But, no one has reports from the scene to confirm or elaborate on this. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/santa-cruz-solomon-island-earthquake-and-tsunami\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Santa Cruz, Solomon Island Earthquake and Tsunami UPDATE: several villages destroyed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-46g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}