{"id":28610,"date":"2021-10-10T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=28610"},"modified":"2021-10-10T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T02:31:24","slug":"magnitude-6-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=28610","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 6.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well? That was the strongest shake we have had in a while. Magnitude 6.2 well offshore of the south end of the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole house rattled for a while, then a few sharp bangs, then it rumbled on for a while longer.  Nothing knocked off shelves, just a steady rattle of plates and photos on the wall.  The 3D printer took no notice, happily plotting along.<br><br>The cats did take notice, Electra disappearing under the bed, not to re-appear for a while.  Ras was all perky-eared and vigilant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this quake I guessed not only the distance correctly, but the magnitude to within 0.3, (guessed 6.5, USGS revised 6.2).  We have plenty of experience with big island shakes at this point. I felt both the S and P waves arrive, that gave me distance.  What surprised me is the depth, 21 miles down, that is below the crust, into the mantle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Mag61EQ20211010.png\" alt=\"Magnitude 6.1 Down South\" class=\"wp-image-28612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Mag61EQ20211010.png 720w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Mag61EQ20211010-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Mag61EQ20211010-200x200.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>USGS plot of a magnitude 6.1 earthquake off the south end of the island with aftershocks, Oct. 10, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well? That was the strongest shake we have had in a while. Magnitude 6.2 well offshore of the south end of the island. The whole house rattled for a while, then a few sharp bangs, then it rumbled on for a while longer. Nothing knocked off shelves, just a steady rattle of plates and photos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=28610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnitude 6.2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,20],"tags":[892,40],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28616,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28610\/revisions\/28616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}