{"id":2732,"date":"2015-07-17T20:55:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T04:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2015-07-17T20:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T04:55:17","slug":"earthquake-near-the-santa-cruz-islands-western-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2732","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake near the Santa Cruz Islands (western Pacific)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just had an earthquake near the Santa Cruz Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us20002yaw#general_summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USGS web page<\/a> for this earthquake.<br \/>\nHere is a map that I quickly put together with the moment tensor from the M 7.0 earthquake. I also plot the M 6.7 earthquake from a week ago (here is my page <a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">where I discuss that M 6.7 earthquake<\/a> and the regional tectonics of this region).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150718_santa_cruz\/20150718_santa_cruz_interpretation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150718_santa_cruz\/20150718_santa_cruz_interpretation.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere have been some reports of strong ground shaking as evidenced by this &#8220;Did You Feel It?&#8221; map.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150718_santa_cruz\/us20002yaw_ciim.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150718_santa_cruz\/us20002yaw_ciim.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt is interesting that the observations are larger than the modeled estimates of ground shaking:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150718_santa_cruz\/us20002yaw_plot_atten.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150718_santa_cruz\/us20002yaw_plot_atten.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is the pager report that is an estimate of damage to people and their belongings.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150718_santa_cruz\/onepager.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150718_santa_cruz\/onepager.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWe just had an earthquake near the Santa Cruz Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Here is the USGS web page for this earthquake. Here is a map that I quickly put together with the moment tensor from the M&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Earthquake near the Santa Cruz Islands (western Pacific)!&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[6,53,7,9,27,34,38],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}