{"id":3921,"date":"2011-03-16T11:56:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T15:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2011-03-17T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:21:28","slug":"watching-the-earth-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/03\/16\/watching-the-earth-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the earth move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists now say the tectonic event off the coast of Japan may have shifted the island by <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/ondeadline\/post\/2011\/03\/quake-shifted-japan-coast-about-13-feet-knocked-earth-65-inches-off-axis\/1\">as much as thirteen feet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been thinking about this as &#8220;an earthquake&#8221; but this Youtube video tracks the remarkable popcorn effect of major temblors between March 9 and March 14 (Monday).<\/p>\n<p>Each second that passes on the video represents approximately an hour of real time.<\/p>\n<p>The big quake comes at about 1:17.\u00a0 But remember, many of these &#8220;small&#8221; events<a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/states\/events\/1944_09_05.php\"> are as big as the severe quake that caused millions of dollars of damage in Massena in 1944<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xylDxj6-9dY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xylDxj6-9dY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists now say the tectonic event off the coast of Japan may have shifted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4829,5644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}