{"id":77,"date":"2008-02-24T23:37:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T05:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2008-02-24T23:37:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T05:37:22","slug":"worldwide-earthquake-reporting-and-other-interesting-facts-from-the-usgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/worldwide-earthquake-reporting-and-other-interesting-facts-from-the-usgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide Earthquake Reporting and Other Interesting Facts From the USGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Geological Survey&#8217;s website<\/a> calls itself &#8220;Your source for science you can use&#8221;. I started reading this site just a few days ago &#038; it&#8217;s interesting what kind of information you can find at www.usgs.gov<\/p>\n<p>It was that 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Nevada on Thursday, February 21, 2008 that piqued my curiosity. It was originally reported as if it was a non-event, but in the days since more details have emerged. I like to see my tax dollars at work and that&#8217;s what led me to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USGS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was living in Mexico in Sept. 1985 when the Mexico City earthquakes happened. I ended up working with the Red Cross for a few weeks following that disaster. And in Feb. 1986 I was staying with friends in Xela, Guatemala when the largest quake happened there since the 1976 Guatemala quake. If you&#8217;ve ever been in a powerful earthquake you know what I mean when I say &#8220;It was frightening&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthquake.usgs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go here to see the recent quakes anywhere in the world<\/a>. You can see a map of recent magnitude 4+ quakes in the world and magnitude 1+ quakes in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe The U.S. Geological Survey&#8217;s website calls itself &#8220;Your source for science you can use&#8221;. I started reading this site just a few days ago &#038; it&#8217;s interesting what kind of information you can find at www.usgs.gov It was that 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Nevada on Thursday, February 21, 2008 that piqued my curiosity. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helpful-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}