{"id":3274,"date":"2012-06-07T12:36:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T02:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2012-06-07T12:36:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T02:36:24","slug":"irish-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/06\/irish-earthquake-3274.html","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Irish Earthquake Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1380\" href=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/06\/new-guinea-1245.html\/tremor\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1380\" title=\"tremor\" src=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tremor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Britain and Ireland aren&#8217;t known for earthquakes, so even smaller quakes make the news. The biggest ever recorded in the region was a 5.4 magnitude on July 19th, 1984, off the west coast of Wales and felt in parts of Ireland. And now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/ireland\/2012\/0607\/1224317443871.html\">second biggest<\/a>, and the highest\u00a0magnitude\u00a0ever recorded in Ireland, has just occurred &#8211; 4.0 on the Richter scale, 60 km west of Belmullet, Co Mayo, at a depth of 3 km, at 8.58 am, June 6.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that, as well as triggering some of the largest quakes worldwide, eclipses also set off quakes that are small, but relatively huge for their region? The record\u00a01984 quake mentioned above was within 5 weeks of a lunar eclipse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain and Ireland aren&#8217;t known for earthquakes, so even smaller quakes make the news. The biggest ever recorded in the region was a 5.4 magnitude on July 19th, 1984, off the west coast of Wales and felt in parts of Ireland. And now the second biggest, and the highest\u00a0magnitude\u00a0ever recorded in Ireland, has just occurred &#8211; 4.0 on the Richter scale, 60 km west of Belmullet, Co Mayo, at a depth of 3 km, at 8.58 am, June 6.<br \/>\nIs it possible that, as well as triggering some of the largest quakes worldwide, eclipses also set off quakes that are small, but relatively huge for their region? The record\u00a01984 quake mentioned above was within 5 weeks of a lunar eclipse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->