{"id":675,"date":"2011-03-11T22:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=675"},"modified":"2011-03-11T22:15:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T21:15:23","slug":"special-report-pre-earthquakes-to-the-mw8-9-earthquake-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Special report: Pre-earthquakes to the Mw8.9 earthquake in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that before the large earthquake that did happen today (11th March 2011) there was a sequence of a pre-earthquakes. The pre-earthquake to the large Mw8.9 earthquake was a Mw7.2 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emsc-csem.org\/Earthquake\/earthquake.php?id=211185#summary\">EMSC data<\/a>) that took place on the 9th March 2011 at 02:45 UTC. This pre-earthquake was followed by about dozen or so aftershocks, the largest one being Mb6.2 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emsc-csem.org\/Earthquake\/earthquake.php?id=211305\">EMSC data<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this type of pre-earthquakes is that you cannot know that they are pre-earthquakes until after the large earthquake takes place. Because of that fact, it is only now known that the Mw7.2 was a pre-earthquake to the Mw8.9 earthquake that did hit Japan today (11th March 2011).<\/p>\n<p>Please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/\">BBC News<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/\">CNN<\/a> for more news about this earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>For webicorders that show the earthquake can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simnet.is\/jonfr500\/earthquake\/othersten.htm\">here<\/a>. USGS webicorders can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simnet.is\/jonfr500\/earthquake\/tremorusgsen.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that before the large earthquake that did happen today (11th March 2011) there was a sequence of a pre-earthquakes. The pre-earthquake to the large Mw8.9 earthquake was a Mw7.2 (EMSC data) that took place on the 9th March 2011 at 02:45 UTC. This pre-earthquake was followed by about dozen or so aftershocks, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Special report: Pre-earthquakes to the Mw8.9 earthquake in Japan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,61,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-japan","category-special-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}