{"id":11,"date":"2007-09-03T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/personalblog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2019-09-05T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T23:59:42","slug":"11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/personalblog\/11\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Earthquake (Or: What Drinks Did I Have Last Night?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at 10:30 in the morning I felt my first earthquake here in California. The epicenter was north of Temecula, which is about 45-60 minutes north east of Carlsbad. The earthquake reached 4.7 on the Richter scale. It wasn&#8217;t anything big here in Carlsbad. I was still lying in bed and just about to get up when I heard the wood of the house and the wooden shutters in my room make some noise. I also felt the bed shaking a little bit. Here&#8217;s a map that shows where people said they felt it:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/pictures\/various\/Earthquake%202007.09.02.gif\"><br \/>\nThe original source of the above image is:  <a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/pasadena.wr.usgs.gov\/shake\/ca\/STORE\/X10275733\/ciim_display.html\">http:\/\/pasadena.wr.usgs.gov\/shake\/ca\/STORE\/X10275733\/ciim_display.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking at the map of recent earthquakes in California at <a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/quake.usgs.gov\/recenteqs\/\">http:\/\/quake.usgs.gov\/recenteqs<\/a> it&#8217;s actually surprising I haven&#8217;t felt any other earthquakes so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at 10:30 in the morning I felt my first earthquake here in California. The epicenter was north of Temecula, which is about 45-60 minutes north east of Carlsbad. The earthquake reached 4.7 on the Richter scale. 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