{"id":25630,"date":"2010-06-17T11:22:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T11:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/17\/geologists-investigated-over-q\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T11:22:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T11:22:42","slug":"geologists-investigated-over-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/geologists-investigated-over-q\/","title":{"rendered":"Geologists Investigated Over Quake Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a moment of astonishing stupidity, Italian prosecutors are taking up a case against geologists who failed to predict a somewhat severe earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists had investigated a series of low magnitude quakes, and indicated that these quakes did not mean that a larger quake was coming.  Then, a few weeks later, the 6.3 mag L&#8217;Aquilla quake occurred, killing 308 people.<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthmagazine.org\/earth\/article\/354-7da-6-f\">Hazardous Living: Geologists to be charged for not predicting earthquake?<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a moment of astonishing stupidity, Italian prosecutors are taking up a case against geologists who failed to predict a somewhat severe earthquake. The scientists had investigated a series of low magnitude quakes, and indicated that these quakes did not mean that a larger quake was coming. Then, a few weeks later, the 6.3 mag &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/geologists-investigated-over-q\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geologists Investigated Over Quake Prediction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Fo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25630"}],"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=25630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}