{"id":6366,"date":"2011-03-11T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2011-03-11T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T17:59:11","slug":"propagating-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/propagating-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Propagating Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/12\/world\/asia\/12japan.html?_r=1\">devastating earthquake<\/a>, 8.9 on the Richter scale, hit Japan today, causing extensive damage and a large tsunami.  I can&#8217;t imagine what it would be like to look out your window and see something like this headed your way.  Our thoughts go out to everyone affected by the disaster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/12\/world\/asia\/12japan.html?_r=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/03\/12japan-cnd-span4-articleLarge.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A force this big propagates around the world, so beaches <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2011\/03\/southern-california-beaches-closed-as-waves-expected-from-japan-earthquake.html\">here in Southern California<\/a> were expecting heightened wave activity &#8212; nothing very serious, but certainly noticeable.  Scientists of course immediately leapt into action to estimate what kind of effects should be expected.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/ptwc.weather.gov\/?region=0\">National Weather Service<\/a> circulated this map of predicted wave heights.  Click to embiggen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/03\/energylhvpd9-05.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/03\/tsunami2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the House of Representatives is trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/03\/11\/gop-budget-tsunami\/\">cut funding<\/a> for tsunami warning centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating earthquake, 8.9 on the Richter scale, hit Japan today, causing extensive damage and a large tsunami. I can&#8217;t imagine what it would be like to look out your window and see something like this headed your way. Our thoughts go out to everyone affected by the disaster. A force this big propagates around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}