{"id":1787,"date":"2013-01-10T00:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T05:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2013-01-10T00:19:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T05:19:11","slug":"statewide-quake-in-california-may-be-possible-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/01\/10\/statewide-quake-in-california-may-be-possible-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide quake in California may be possible after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research challenges assumptions that the central part of the San Andreas fault would act as a barrier, preventing a big quake from traveling between the northern and southern parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, scientists have assumed the central portion of California&#8217;s San Andreas fault acts as a barrier that prevents a big quake in the southern part of the state from spreading to the north, and vice versa. As a result, a mega-quake that could be felt from San Diego to San Francisco was widely considered impossible.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/latimes.com.feedsportal.com\/c\/34336\/f\/625246\/s\/275e063f\/mf.gif?resize=1%2C1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.latimes.com\/~ff\/latimes\/news\/local?a=IRa295XycgA:QMxtvhL1SBU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/latimes\/news\/local?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.latimes.com\/~ff\/latimes\/news\/local?a=IRa295XycgA:QMxtvhL1SBU:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/latimes\/news\/local?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.latimes.com\/~ff\/latimes\/news\/local?a=IRa295XycgA:QMxtvhL1SBU:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/latimes\/news\/local?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/latimes\/news\/local\/~4\/IRa295XycgA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>via L.A. Times &#8211; California | Local News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-sci-big-earthquakes-20130110,0,6015584.story?track=rss\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-sci-big-earthquakes-20130110,0,6015584.story?track=rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research challenges assumptions that the central part of the San Andreas fault would act as a barrier, preventing a big quake from traveling between the northern and southern parts of the state. For decades, scientists have assumed the central portion of California&#8217;s San Andreas fault acts as a barrier that prevents a big quake &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/01\/10\/statewide-quake-in-california-may-be-possible-after-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Statewide quake in California may be possible after all&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[788,6,73,72],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-by-eryn-brown","tag-ifttt","tag-l-a-times-california-local-news","tag-los-angeles-times"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-sP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}