{"id":2806,"date":"2015-08-31T09:08:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:08:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:08:18","slug":"earthquake-straight-out-of-compton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake, Straight out of Compton!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake occured this morning in Compton! Initially a 3.2, is currently a M = 2.9, as reported by the USGS (<a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci37236159#general_summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here is their web page<\/a>).<br \/>\nHere is a map that shows the faults, the earthquakes from the past decade, the shaking intensity (using the Modified Mercalli Shaking Intensity Scale), along with some interpretive graphics.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150831_LA\/20150831_LA_interpretation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150831_LA\/20150831_LA_interpretation.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere have been lots of earthquakes along the Newport Inglewood fault system. Today&#8217;s earthquake appears to be along the Compton thrust fault, a compressional fault that connects to the NIF at depth (see inset graphic below, from UNAVCO). A recent earthquake was in 2015.04.13 and here is <a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my page about that earthquake<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150503_LA\/unavco_la_contraction_xl.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150503_LA\/unavco_la_contraction_xl.gif\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is a page for an <a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earthquake in May of 2015<\/a>. Below is a map showing the earthquakes from mid 2015:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150503_LA\/20150503_LA_interpretation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150503_LA\/20150503_LA_interpretation.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nAn earthquake occured this morning in Compton! Initially a 3.2, is currently a M = 2.9, as reported by the USGS (here is their web page). Here is a map that shows the faults, the earthquakes from the past decade,&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Earthquake, Straight out of Compton!&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":[50,5,6,9,17,27],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806"}],"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=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}