{"id":475,"date":"2003-04-08T02:16:31","date_gmt":"2003-04-08T02:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:03","slug":"finding-fault-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"finding fault in los angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As if smog, endless traffic, and Joan Rivers  weren&#8217;t bad enough, you&#8217;ve got major earthquakes to worry about in LA,  too. Researchers from the University of California have found a new  fault buried under Los Angeles that may have been responsible for at  least four large-magnitude earthquakes in the past 11,000 years, they  report in the April 4 issue of <em>Science.<\/em> The Puente Hills Blind Thrust  fault is about two miles deep and extends from Orange County to Beverly  Hills. Using data from the oil industry and research bore holes, the  scientists studied sediment layers over the hidden fault and found  evidence of four earthquakes with a magnitude greater than seven on the  Richter scale. The authors note that the 6.0 magnitude 1987 Whittier  Narrows earthquake appeared along a segment of the fault, &#8220;demonstrating  that the fault system is active and capable of generating damaging  earthquakes.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 4\/08\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if smog, endless traffic, and Joan Rivers weren&#8217;t bad enough, you&#8217;ve got major earthquakes to worry about in LA, too. Researchers from the University of California have found a new fault buried under Los Angeles that may have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}